China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft, which lifted off on 29 May 2025, is on course to attempt a touch-and-go sample grab from near-Earth asteroid (469219) Kamoʻoalewa this month. If the maneuver succeeds, ...

Two spacecraft captured opposite sides of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS at the same moment in November 2025, producing the first simultaneous ultraviolet view of both hemispheres of an object born in ...

One of the biggest problems astronomers face when they peer into the night sky is that the heavens above appear two-dimensional. To the eye, that’s obvious; as far as your vision can tell, all the ...

If you thought summer here on Earth could get pretty brutal, spare a thought for the extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, designated HD 80606 b. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have ...

A team of astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to create the first 3D atmospheric map of an exoplanet. The fiery WASP-18b, a massive “ultra-hot Jupiter,” revealed striking temperature ...

The exoplanet HD 80606 b has a weird, elliptical orbit that brings it perilously close to its home star, causing massive temperature fluctuations. Joe is a freelance journalist. It all started with a ...

Researchers studying the universe's "Pink Planet" have discovered an unexpected feature in its atmosphere: clouds made of salt. A team of astronomers led by Northwestern University used the James Webb ...

Colliding galaxies can trigger rapid star formation but also cause gas to be expelled. Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe a distant galaxy merger called CRISTAL-02. CRISTAL-02 ...

An enormous world orbiting a sun-like star just 57 light-years away in space may have a pink hue and a sky filled with clouds of salt. "Distant object" is about as precise of a label as it gets for ...

Terzan 5, a stellar system orbiting within the Milky Way's bulge, is about 3,000 light-years from the galactic center. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Giorgia Zullo / Francesco Ferraro / Alyssa ...

NASA’s hard-working James Webb Space Telescope has successfully pierced through interstellar dust to capture 16.5 million stars inside the Cigar Galaxy. Once again, thanks to its infrared instruments, ...

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