Filter by Category
Search News
Astronomy Research
Submit ArticleSmall Antarctic Telescope Makes An Outsized Impact On Exoplanetary Science
ASTEP, the Antarctic Search for Transiting ExoPlanets, a small visible telescope operating at Concordia station, continues making a real impact in cha...
Source: Universe Today
Webb Finds Water-Ice Clouds on Nearby Super-Jupiter
The giant planets in our solar system—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—have challenged our understanding of planetary formation and evolution. Spe...
Source: Universe Today
570-Megapixel Dark Energy Camera Captures the Sombrero Galaxy
The 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera turned its 4-meter telescope toward Messier 104, better known as the Sombrero Galaxy, and captured an exceptional...
Source: PetaPixel
New JWST images reveal cosmic question marks and buckyballs in a planetary nebula
New James Webb Space Telescope images could shed fresh light on how dying stars evolve over time
Source: Scientific American
Satellite snaps amazing 36th birthday pic of Hubble Space Telescope (photo)
The private WorldView Legion 4 Earth-observing satellite snapped an amazing photo of the Hubble Space Telescope on April 23, 2026, a day before the ob...
Source: Space.com
JWST Reveals a Dying Star Surrounded by Mysterious Buckyballs in Stunning Detail
NASA's little busy-bee, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), just delivered another treasure giving scientists an unprecedented infrared look a...
Source: Hot Hardware
TOI-201 Planets Are Wobbling Out of Our Line of Sight
It turns out that even after studying our solar system in depth and discovering more than 6,100 exoplanets across more than 4,500 exoplanetary systems...
Source: Universe Today
JWST Hunts for an 'Earth-Moon' Twin in a Habitable Zone, But the Star Has Other Plans
The Moon has played a huge role in the development of Earth. It stabilizes the planet, tempered dramatic climate swings, and possibly even provided th...
Source: Universe Today
The Day of the Trifid Nebula
This shimmering region of star-formation, a close-up of the Trifid Nebula about 5,000 light-years from Earth, was captured in intricate detail by NASA...
Source: NASA
Catching the Earliest Stars in the Universe
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope might have caught the signature of the universe's first stars. The post Catching the Earlies...
Source: Sky & Telescope
Hubble Telescope celebrates 36th anniversary with gorgeous new image of famous Trifid Nebula
This latest image from Hubble forms just one of more than 1.7 million observations that the space telescope has made over the past 36 years since it l...
Source: Space.com
This Week's Sky at a Glance, April 24 – May 3
The Moon occults Regulus in twilight or bright afternoon for most of North America. Venus lines up between Aldebaran and the Pleiades. Sirius nears it...
Source: Sky & Telescope
JWST reveals water-ice clouds on a cold Jupiter-mass world
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 23, 2026 A team of astronomers led by Elisabeth Matthews at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has found eviden...
Source: Spacewar.com
These 'interstellar glaciers' could give water to young star systems. Could they support alien life, too?
NASA's SPHEREx space telescope reveals widespread water ice in Cygnus X, showing how dust shields molecules in star-forming regions across the Mi...
Source: Space.com
NASA Kennedy Prepares Facility for Roman Space Telescope Arrival
Preparations are underway for launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope as soon as early September on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launc...
Source: NASA
NASA targets a September launch for its next big space telescope
NASA's next eye into the cosmos is due to leave our planet later this year. The agency says it's targeting an early September launch for the...
Source: Slashdot.org
James Webb Space Telescope peers into a dying star surrounded by mysterious buckyballs: 'The structures we're seeing now are breathtaking'
The James Webb Space Telescope captured the first detailed images of planetary nebula Tc 1, revealing new details of what happens after a sun-like sta...
Source: Space.com
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will launch in September
Ahead of schedule and under budget, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will launch in early September. The mission aims to map the universe in unpr...
Source: Scientific American
The Mechanics of Alien Waves
One of the most dramatic and memorable scenes from Interstellar comes from Miller’s planet - and if you don’t want a spoiler for an 11 year old movie,...
Source: Universe Today
Nebula sparkles in new Hubble snapshot | Space photo of the day for April 23, 2026
Hubble revisits the Trifid Nebula in a spectacular image, revealing it's expansive splendor.
Source: Space.com