As NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope moves through the final phases of commissioning its science instruments, we have also begun working on technical operations of the observatory. While the telescope ...
Since the dawn of the solar system, rocky visitors from deep space have blazed across Earth’s skies. When will the next asteroid or interstellar object make its pass by our planet?
The Haystack 37m Telescope has been a landmark in radio astronomy and radar studies of the solar system since its first light ...
For the first time, astronomers have directly mapped the surface of a rocky planet outside our solar system, and the result is stark: a scorched, pitch-black world with no atmosphere, no clouds, and ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...
RIO HURTADO, Chile - Astronomers say they have discovered an interstellar comet speeding through the solar system, making it only the third known object of its kind to originate from beyond the Sun’s ...
In one of the most exciting developments in astronomy in the 21st century, NASA is launching the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) today–and Northern Arizona University astronomers, planetary ...
The Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for the formation, evolution, and current structure of the outer solar system. The object was found as ...
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope could revolutionize the search for alien worlds by discovering around 100,000 exoplanets—far ...