Saturn’s rings vanished in 2025: The rare cosmic alignment that stunned astronomers and skywatchers

Saturn stunned skywatchers on 23 November when its iconic rings seemed to vanish, leaving the planet looking strangely bare. Astronomers confirmed not ...
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This bizarre exoplanet orbits on a wildly tilted path

Planet hunters have grown used to strange worlds, but a handful of discoveries now point to something even more radical: ...

NASA releases images of comet 3I/ATLAS, rejects alien spacecraft 'rumors'

NASA released fresh images on Wednesday of the interstellar object called 3I/ATLAS that astronomers have determined is a ...
Phys.org

Demand for JWST's observational time hits a new peak

Getting time on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the dream of many astronomers. The most powerful space telescope currently in our arsenal, the JWST has been in operation for almost four years ...
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5 Of The Most Expensive NASA Space Missions In History

NASA has long captured the imagination of humanity with its ambitions. We reached the moon, built space stations, placed telescopes in orbit, and unlocked the secrets of the universe with NASA's ...
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UA astronomers find strong evidence of planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A

Recent observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope revealed compelling evidence of a giant planet candidate orbiting Alpha Centauri A, a star in the nearest stellar system to the Sun. Led by ...
Ars Technica

Here’s how orbital dynamics wizardry helped save NASA’s next Mars mission

Perhaps an odd question, but what exactly is the volume of space that makes up various "L" points? Obviously it isn't a precise place in space where only one orbital object sits as if on a gravity ...
Phys.org

The JWST puts Io's volcanic nature in the spotlight

Jupiter's moon Io stands alone among the solar system's moons. It has more than 400 active volcanoes, and its surface is home to more than 100 massive volcanic mountains, some of which are taller than ...
IFLScience

Record-Breaking Marshmallow Planet – It’s A Cold, Peculiar World On A Very Slanted Orbit

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...
Scientific American

Have Astronomers Finally Found an Exomoon?

Astronomers have yet to find irrefutable proof for any natural satellites of exoplanets—so-called exomoons—but as circumstantial evidence accumulates and the list of candidates grows, the discovery of ...
Science Daily

JWST may have found the Universe’s first stars powered by dark matter

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion-powered suns, but enormous “supermassive dark stars” powered by dark ...
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The James Webb Space Telescope

TALKING ABOUT TELESCOPES: The James Webb Space Telescope peers deeper into space and reveals more heavenly secrets than any instrument ever produced. (Submitted Photo) Launched Christmas, 2021, and ...