Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. How does the camera on the James Webb Space ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists spotted thin and thick disks in galaxies as far back as 10 billion years ago—something never seen before. These observations reveal that galaxies first ...

The telescope has the largest digital camera ever made. It’s so precise that one image alone contains 10 million galaxies.

Southwest Research Institute has delivered the novel Compact Dual Ion Composition Experiment (CoDICE) instrument for final ...

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The Proba-3 spacecraft succeed at creating solar eclipses, kicking off a two-year mission to study the sun’s mysterious outer atmosphere, the corona.

COZMIC simulator crafted detailed models of the Milky Way to investigate dark matter and how the universe might behave under different rules.

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(via Be Smart) The James Webb Telescope just took a photo of a newly discovered exoplanet. Exciting stuff but the raw image just looks like a small, faint dot—not a fully detailed world. The question ...

The so-called "Extremely Large Telescope" is being built on a mountaintop in the Andes at an elevation of about 3,000 meters. And it really is extremely large.

A telescope's powerful new tool may offer a better way to predict solar storms By Alana Wise Published May 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM EDT VTF/KIS/NSF/NSO/AURA ...