Since beginning science operations over the summer, the James Webb Space Telescope has shed new light on some of the space industry’s most stunning discoveries.Most recently, the Webb team used the telescope’s infrared vision to penetrate Titan’s hazy atmosphere, revealing what is thought to be…

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope captured ancient galaxies and a distant spiral galaxy in stunning detail. The crowded field shows bright stars and the large spiral galaxy LEDA 2046648, which is more than a billion light-years from Earth in the constellation Hercules. The…

Astronomers at the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab made the first confirmed detection of a star system that will one day form a kilonova, an ultra-powerful and gold-producing explosion created by merging neutron stars. Researchers said on Tuesday that they used data from the SMARTS 1.5-meter Telescope…

A strange spiral was caught on video over Hawaii on Jan. 18. The official Twitter account of the Subaru Telescope on Maunakea, an optical-infrared telescope operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, guessed what the source of the phenomenon might be. “On Jan 18, 2023 (HST),…

A strange formation that resembles a bear’s face was captured on the surface of the Red Planet by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter last month. Two perfectly placed craters make up the eyes, a hill with a “V-shaped collapse structure” makes up the nose, and a circular…

Two large pieces of space debris – an old rocket body and a military satellite – nearly collided on Friday. LeoLabs, a private company that works to track satellites and objects in low Earth orbit, tweeted that, had the objects hit each other, the collision would…