Earth-Like Planet GJ 1132 B Has No Atmosphere
Artist’s impression of exoplanet GJ 1132 b and its host M-dwarf star. Credit: Dana Berry, Skyworks Digital, CfA…
A Strange New Rectangular Telescope Could Spot 25 Potentially Habitable Worlds
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Telescopes like the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and the…
James Webb Space Telescope reveals ghostly dust rings: This “dead” star surprises astronomers |
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured astonishing new images of the planetary nebula NGC 1514, unveiling…
JWST May Have Found the Universe’s First Pristine Galaxy
The James Webb Space Telescope may have uncovered one of the Universe’s first galaxies, AMORE6, almost devoid of…
NASA once celebrated her, then fired her, and then tried to erase her story: The rise and fall of Rose Ferreira |
Image: Brooke Owens Fellowship Rose Ferreira’s life story reads like a tale of resilience against impossible odds. Born…
James Webb Telescope Finds Carbon-Rich Planet Nursery
In a cosmic twist worthy of a sci-fi plot, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to…
Webb Telescope Spots Sparkling Crystals and Life’s Ingredients in the Butterfly Nebula
This image, which combines infrared data from the James Webb Space Telescope with submillimetre observations from the Atacama…
JWST Detects Steam on Distant Exoplanets. Could Exotic Water Worlds Rewrite the Search for Life?
Sub-Neptunes may be inhospitable to life as we know it, but their strange water-rich interiors hold secrets about…
James Webb Space Telescope reveals ‘unusual’ chemical makeup of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
Scientists are trying to learn as much as they can about our third ever discovered interstellar visitor, 3I/ATLAS,…
Colorful space ‘butterfly’ glimmers with planet-making dust
The planetary nebula NGC 6302 is one the most-studied of cosmic entities of its kind, with a familiar…
Uranus Has a Tiny New Moon and It’s Only Six Miles Wide
James Webb has revealed Uranus’ smallest moon yet, a six-mile-wide world hidden near its inner rings. This discovery…
NASA’s Webb Telescope Discovers 300 Mysterious Objects That Shouldn’t Exist
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have spotted 300 mysterious objects that may be some of the…