Space Telescope Science Institute

By Looking Back Through Hubble Data, Astronomers Have Identified six Massive Stars Before They Exploded as Core-Collapse Supernovae

Using images from the Hubble Snapshot Program and archival data, a team of astronomers has located the progenitor stars of…

2 years ago

James Webb is Working Perfectly! On the Ground. Next Trick: Doing it From Space

The James Webb Space Telescope recently passed another critical milestone - the Ground Segment Test - and is on track…

4 years ago

What Steps Are Needed To Find More Earths?

It wasn't so long ago that we found out there is an Earth-sized planet in a habitable zone of a…

11 years ago

Why Doesn’t Earth Have More Water?

Water, water everywhere... Coleridge's shipbound ancient mariners were plagued by a lack of water while surrounded by a sea of…

12 years ago

Grunsfeld May Lead NASA Science Division

[/caption]The current buzz amongst those in the know say that astrophysicist/astronaut, John Grunsfeld, has been chosen to lead NASA’s science…

13 years ago