Astronomers Find 70 Planets Without Stars Floating Free in the Milky Way
A international team of astronomers, using observatories all over the world (and one in space), discovered 70 new rogue planets…
Success! Webb Sunshield Now Fully Deployed
If you felt a little more tension – and perhaps more goosebumps -- in the Universe today, it’s probably because…
2029 Will be the Perfect Year to Launch a Mission to Sedna
Object 90377 Sedna - a distant trans-Neptunian object known best for its highly elliptical, 11,390-year long orbit - is currently…
A Detailed Scan of the Milky Way Finds Possible “Fossil” Spiral Arms
New research has revealed previously unknown wispy structures in the Milky Way disk that could offer clues about the history…
JWST Just Deployed a Sail That Lets it Stop Getting Pushed Around by the Sun’s Radiation.
The James Webb just deployed another important instrument - the aft momentum flap - that will keep the telescope steady…
An Exoplanet Found Protected by a Magnetosphere
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers has spotted the magnetosphere of an exoplanet for the first…
Still Nervous about JWST? Friday and Saturday’s Sunshield Deployments will be Nail-biters
Every part of the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST's) deployment is nerve-wracking, but some of the most nail-biting moments will…
Want Updates on JWST? NASA’s Site Will Bury you in Data: Distance, Temperatures, Deployment Stats… Everything
Want to know the latest details on the James Webb Space Telescope? NASA has a “dashboard” where you can see…
JWST’s Precise Launch and Near-Perfect Course Corrections Mean Fuel Savings. And That Means a Longer Mission
After a detailed analysis of where the James Webb Space Telescope is now (Dec. 29, 2021) and how it got…
If you had Radio Telescopes for Eyes, one of the Biggest Things in the sky Would be a jet of Material Blasting out of a Nearby Galaxy
Astronomers have captured a radio galaxy that spans 16 Moon-widths in the sky.