NASA and #spacex are targeting 12:35 p.m. EDT Saturday, June 3, to launch the company’s 28th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A at the agen...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have come up with what they say is some of their best evidence yet for the presence of a rare class of intermediate-sized black holes, having foun...
Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Simonyi Survey Telescope ready to receive optical componentsVera C. Rubin Observatory has passed a major construction milestone: the telescope structure is ready to be outf...
Gemini South captures first direct evidence of an exoplanet being swallowed by an ancient Sun-like star.Astronomers using the Gemini South telescope in Chile, operated by NSF’s #NOIRLab, have observed...
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), researchers have found for the first time the fingerprints left by the explosion of the first stars in the Universe. They detected three distant gas clouds whos...
For the first time, astronomers have observed, in the same image, the shadow of the black hole at the centre of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87) and the powerful jet expelled from it. The observations were...
As #nasa builds a blueprint for human exploration throughout the solar system for the benefit of humanity, the agency released Tuesday the outcomes from its first Architecture Concept Review, a robust...
Machine learning reconstructs new image of Messier 87 from Event Horizon Telescope dataA team of researchers, including an astronomer with NSF’s #noirlab, has developed a new machine-learning techniqu...
Gemini North captures sprawling aftermath of head-on collision between a pair of galaxies.The #gemininorthtelescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF’s #noirlab, captu...
Using the #atacamalargemillimetersubmillimeterarray (ALMA), of which #eso is a partner, astronomers have discovered a large reservoir of hot gas in the still-forming galaxy cluster around the Spiderwe...
An international team of researchers has used the #nasaesacsajameswebbspacetelescope to measure the temperature of the rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 b. The measurement is based on the planet’s thermal em...
Hubble monitors changing weather and seasons on Jupiter and Uranus23 March 2023Ever since its launch in 1990, the #nasaesahubblespacetelescope has been an interplanetary weather observer, keeping an e...
Researchers observing with the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have pinpointed silicate cloud features in a distant planet’s atmosphere. The atmosphere is constantly rising, mixing, and moving...
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), two teams of astronomers have observed the aftermath of the collision between NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft and the asteroid Dimorph...
A Wolf-Rayet star is a rare prelude to the famous final act of a massive star: the supernova. As one of its first observations in 2022, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope captured the Wolf-Ra...
© Copyright 2023