Telescopes & Observatories

4+ hour, 34+ min ago   (110+ words) Hubble’s Solar System NASA Science (.gov) NASA Discovery Reveals Complex Water Systems on Early Mars Newfound ‘Baby’ Planet Smashes Record for Youngest Known World NASA’s Moon Orbiter Spots New, ‘Once-in-Century’ Moon Crater Progress 96 Cargo Spacecraft Docks to Station to Resupply…...

5+ hour, 35+ min ago   (48+ words) Juan Wang (IMAGE) EurekAlert! Juan Wang, an associate research professor of genetics at Rutgers, uses tiny roundworms to uncover how a genetic change linked to kidney disease disrupts proteins inside cells. More on this News Release A tiny worm helps…...

4+ hour, 14+ min ago   (1161+ words) New Hubble TEMPOS survey of 29 massive stars in extremely metal-poor galaxies finds unexpectedly weak stellar winds and delivers the largest-ever dataset of its kind, which could reshape our understanding of how galaxies formed in the early universe The relative size…...

8+ hour, 54+ min ago   (1239+ words) Planets are usually associated with stars, but the physics of planet formation may not be limited to star systems. In a recent SETI Live conversation, SETI Institute research scientist Dr. Lauren Sgro spoke with astrophysicists Dr. Bhupendra Mishra and Dr....

5+ hour, 48+ min ago   (824+ words) A visual search of ultra-deep VST mosaics found 47 dwarf-galaxy candidates where only four were catalogued, exposing both the power and the biases of by-eye discovery. By Deep Field · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 22, 2026 · How we edit A deep optical…...

8+ hour, 4+ min ago   (995+ words) The more astronomers learn about the universe’s earliest galaxies, the stranger they seem. Many of their surprising properties may be explained by differences between their massive stars and those in galaxies like our own Milky Way. A new University of…...

8+ hour, 5+ min ago   (747+ words) James Webb cannot see chariklo’s rings directly but their shadows revealed that something is happening to them. What if I told you that Saturn and the other gas giants are not the only worlds in our Solar System to sport…...

11+ hour, 43+ min ago   (456+ words) In October 2022, a team of Spanish astronomers leveraged the powerful eye of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine one of the most unexpected discoveries in the cosmos: the rings encircling a curious asteroid in the outer Solar System. The…...

9+ hour, 25+ min ago   (555+ words) Home » Science » Hubble Space Telescope Unveils Stunning Images of Our Solar System The Hubble Space Telescope, operational since its launch in 1990, continues to provide breathtaking views of the cosmos, significantly enhancing our understanding of the universe. This iconic observatory not…...

9+ hour, 56+ min ago   (161+ words) A barred spiral galaxy called NGC 4698 has a bizarre structure in which its central stars and gas rotate perpendicular to the galaxy’s main disk, possibly because it acquired material from outside....