'James Webb’s rival?': NASA’s next-gen telescope is about to change everything
NASA's SPHEREx telescope launches soon, mapping the universe in 102 infrared colors to reveal cosmic evolution, inflation, ...
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NASA to launch space telescope ‘SPHEREx’ on February 27
WASHINGTON: NASA is preparing to launch its new space telescope, the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, ...
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Are we all aliens? NASA's returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...
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James Webb Space Telescope Captures Cosmic Fingerprint 5,000 Light-Years Away
The James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) captured imagery of a pair of stars called Wolf-Rayet 140. "Shells of cosmic dust created by the interaction of binary stars appear like ...
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Space photo of the week: James Webb and Hubble telescopes unite to solve 'impossible' planet mystery
New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...
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James Webb Space Telescope's First Targets
NASA released full color James Webb Space Telescope images of the Carina Nebula, exoplanet WASP-96 b, Southern Ring Nebula, ...
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James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Phenomena Behind the Deaths of Mysterious “Disintegrating Planets”
New insights into the extreme conditions behind "disintegrating planets" reveals how they are consumed by the heat of their ...
How Webb Telescope’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Nearly Broke Cosmology—and Helped Fix It
Mysterious little red dots threatened to overhaul modern cosmology—but new research may have solved the celestial conundrum.
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NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope to launch in February — it can do what the JWST can't
"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...
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Summer school at Vatican Observatory offers unique opportunity for young scientists
The Vatican Observatory’s summer school, known as “Specola,” has already selected students for its next edition in June.
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NASA finds a planet disintegrating faster than astronomers thought possible
Certain extreme planets are called ultra-short period objects if they're very close to their stars and orbit them in mere hours, like K2-22b.
On this date: Kennedy announces James Webb as NASA Administrator
On this date, President John F. Kennedy provides NASA with its strongest advocate for large space telescopes, James Webb ...