There are many obstacles for a little rover exploring Mars to deal with, from steep hills to deep ravines to dust which can obscure solar panels or get into mechanical components. Now, the Curiosity … [+2108 chars]
The universe is a bit less than 14 billion years old, and because light takes time to travel, looking far enough away is like looking back in time to the start of the universe. Recently, an internati… [+2478 chars]
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's latest successor, James Webb Space Telescope, is now exploring the space regions that no other satellites were able to reach until now. James Webb is considered to b… [+2589 chars]
In the long process of getting ready to take its first scientific observations this summer, the James Webb Space Telescope now has three out of its four instruments aligned to its mirrors. The fourth… [+2663 chars]
An international team of astronomers led by Dr. Marcin Glowacki, who previously worked at the Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy and the University of the Western Cape in South A… [+2124 chars]
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