Such a dramatic cut to a flagship space telescope still in its prime will be felt across the mission's entire operations, ...
The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...
On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...
On December 25, 2021, the largest and most powerful space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, was launched into space ...
From the iconic 'one small step', to the spectacular 'Earthrise', check out these 10 stunning Moon photos shared by NASA.
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NASA's New Horizons Pluto probe is gearing up to cross the "termination shock," an exotic boundary in the outer solar system, ...
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The flash was spotted by the Einstein Probe’s Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT), which uses a novel type of design known as a ...
It turns out that one of the most prominent space artists predicted how a strange celestial object would look — 50 years in ...