After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has eliminated the possibility that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon in December 2032, resolving a years-long planetary defense alert that once ranked among the ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a new image of what is known as the "Exposed Cranium" nebula, a cloud of gas ...

"Nebula PMR 1 is a cloud of gas and dust that bears an uncanny resemblance to a brain in a transparent skull." ...

For the first time, scientists have mapped Uranus’s upper atmosphere in three dimensions, tracking temperatures and charged particles up to 5,000 kilometers above the clouds. Webb’s sharp vision ...

A Northwestern University-led team of astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to discover a former star that ...

The telescope observed the ice giant for a full rotation, revealing how temperature and charged particles vary with altitude.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 that was discovered by the Chile-based observatory ATLAS in 2024 was predicted to impact the lunar surface in 2032 based on calculations last year. The impact would have caused lunar ...

New research using the James Webb Space Telescope offers the most detailed portrait yet of how auroras form on Uranus.

Webb has delivered the first detailed 3D view of Uranus’s upper atmosphere, uncovering glowing auroras, heat peaks thousands of kilometers high, and the powerful influence of its tilted magnetic field ...

Light is the fastest phenomenon in the universe, clocking in at just under 300,000 kilometers per second. The telescopes that observe that light, from radio waves to gamma rays, are built at rather ...

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