Pasadena, CA— The first of six projects led by Carnegie-affiliated astronomers will, for the next three days, use the James Webb Space Telescope to make some of the most-accurate measurements ever ta… [+8707 chars]
Astronomer Scott Sheppard has written a Perspective piece titled "In the glare of the Sun" in the journal Science. Sheppard is an astronomer from the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Hawa… [+1587 chars]
Testing can be a nerve-wracking process, and at one point the testing team was rather concerned. In 2016, a part of Webb was being put through vibration testing, in which the hardware is rapidly shak… [+1436 chars]
ByUniversity of MinnesotaJuly 23, 2022 An international team that includes a University of Minnesota Twin Cities researcher has discovered a new big, meat-eating dinosaur, dubbed Meraxes gigas (illu… [+5697 chars]
China is developing its first large flagship telescope, Xun Tian, which means "survey to heavens" in English. It's a space-based optical observatory for astronomers to carry out sky surveys and captu… [+122 chars]
To reach their conclusions, the scientists used detailed state-of-the-art crystallographic and spectroscopic examinations of the mineral lonsdaleite from the Canyon Diablo iron meteorite first found … [+1795 chars]
Pasadena, CA— The first of six projects led by Carnegie-affiliated astronomers will, for the next three days, use the James Webb Space Telescope to make some of the most-accurate measurements ever ta… [+8707 chars]
Researchers say they have discovered a new, unusual radio signal from a distant galaxy. The signal is known as a fast radio burst, or FRB. These signals are pulses of radio waves that scientists say… [+4477 chars]
It’s been an amazing couple of weeks for fans of gravitational lensing. JWST grabbed the headlines with a spectacular infrared view of lensing in the SMACS 0723 image, and that had everybody talking.… [+4480 chars]
ByEuropean Space Agency (ESA)July 24, 2022 Ius and Tithonium Chasmata on Mars. This image from ESAs Mars Express shows Ius and Tithonium Chasmata, which form part of Mars Valles Marineris canyon str… [+6374 chars]
JAKARTA – NASA has finally suspended the flight of the VIPER rover, a special bot designed to search for water on the surface of the Moon. Initially NASA was going to launch an expedition to the Moon… [+2067 chars]
Share NASA has a body especially focused on the analysis of asteroids to calculate the probability of impacting the Earth within a period of about 100 years. The current probability of this happenin… [+3301 chars]
