Our glorious spiral home apparently has a doppelganger in the early universe.
From black holes to the oldest light in the universe, we saw a remarkable cosmos this year.
The $10 billion observatory didn’t collect many images in December, due to a now-resolved software issue.
The NEO Surveyor project has cleared a NASA review, but the space telescope will cost upwards of $1.2 billion to build and not launch until 2028.
The merging galaxies, heavily distorted by gravity, have formed an unusual celestial ring.
WASP-39b is a hot Saturn with some nasty chemicals in its skies.
The analysis quells fears that the telescope will suffer frequent micrometeoroid hits.
The space observatory’s most recent image shows a star’s preamble in the nearby universe.
We have a much more interesting view of dwarf galaxy Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte, thanks to Webb’s imaging powers.
The Webb team had to pause observations in the medium-resolution spectroscopy mode after a problem arose in late August.
These are the IXPE mission’s first observations of a mass-accreting black hole.
The iconic arms of the Eagle Nebula are zombie-skin blue in this view from the MIRI tool.
These merging galaxies look slightly different, depending on which telescope you use.
The famous clouds of gas and dust are dazzling in the state-of-the-art instrument’s eye.
Telescopes picked up an absolutely massive outburst of gamma rays on the morning of October 9.
TESS has spotted over 250 exoplanets since launching in 2018, but engineers are now trying to bring the spacecraft back online.
The study will attempt to extend the lifespan of the aging telescope.
The event marked the first time that Hubble and Webb simultaneously observed the same object.
The Webb team has paused observations using the medium-resolution spectroscopy mode after detecting "increased friction."
Webb turned its infrared gaze on the Martian surface and atmosphere.
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