The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared camera (NIRCam) captured stunning imagery of Neptune. It is the "clearest view of this peculiar planet’s rings in more than 30 years,” according to ...
Launched on Sept. 6, 2023, XRISM studies X-ray signals emitted throughout the universe. On Feb. 25, 2024, it aimed at a ...
A team of entomologists went into Yellowstone National Park to understand how a tiny beetle could thrive in an incredibly ...
In a cosmic milestone that once seemed straight out of science fiction, astronomers have captured something previously only imagined: the birth of a planet. This is not a simulation or an artist’s ...
Astronomers have taken a rare look into the distant past of the universe and uncovered evidence that galaxies and their ...
Three spacecraft are set to intercept and study the near-Earth asteroid Apophis, which will have a close encounter with Earth in 2029. This 340-meter-wide asteroid will make a close but ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists uncovered bizarre atmospheric structures on Saturn, including drifting “dark beads” in the ionosphere and an asymmetric star pattern in the ...
The newly formed planet has been named WISPIT 2b, discovered in a dark gap within a dust and gas disk surrounding a sun-like star, WISPIT 2. Previously, scientists had only speculated that these gaps ...