In the film “2001: A Space Odyssey,” an astronaut travels through a seeming tunnel of light. (In the novelization, he radios to mission control: “The thing’s hollow—it goes on forever—and—oh my ...
NASA is one step closer in its plan to take unprecedented images of the universe, and possibly discover new planets. This week, NASA successfully completed deployment of its five-layer sunshield, ...
This week, NASA unveiled the first official images recorded by the new James Webb Space Telescope, which stands to take unprecedented images of the universe, allowing us to peer into the farthest ...
image: A selection of sample submissions for NASA's #UnfoldTheUniverse art challenge. Credits: (Top row, L-R): Amelia Cochran, Jaden Berkley, Ella Zhou, Collin Cochran. (Middle, under Jaden Berkley): ...
Following a 30-year effort involving 20,000 people around the globe at a cost of $10 billion, the James Webb Space Telescope is now at work imaging the cosmos. The payoff in understanding our universe ...
The James Webb Space Telescope, launched in 2022, has discovered something that may shatter current theories about the universe's early development. The new result does not affect the big bang theory, ...
LAS CRUCES – The fourth Las Cruces Space Festival is coming back in-person this week with telescopes, art, activities and more to celebrate the influence of space research in southern New Mexico. From ...
It’s a very good thing spacecraft can’t get bored, because if spacecraft could get bored, the Kepler space telescope would have gone out of its mind long ago. It was in March 2009 when NASA launched ...
Using the new eROSITA X-ray telescope, scientists have created the deepest-sever view of the sky as seen in the X-ray wavelength. The image was created over a period of six months, during which the ...
The x-ray image above shows one of the Milky Way’s neighbors, the Large Magellanic Cloud. This image contains fuzzy emissions from gas, intervening stars and distance galactic cores, and the remnants ...
Rene Breton is a Reader at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, The University of Manchester. He currently holds an ERC Starter Grant under the Horizon 2020 programme. The Hidden in Plain Sight ...
The ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array) radio telescope, located in theChilean Andes, has long been a key ...