HH 49/50 is one of these impact sites. It was nicknamed the "Cosmic Tornado" due to its dramatic, swirling shape. Spitzer's ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

Webb's penetrating infrared gaze has now revealed the true identity of the glow as a face-on, distant spiral galaxy. It has a ...

A deep dive into the star-forming Flame Nebula by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ... Now, JWST has picked up the baton and completed what scientists called "a quantum leap" in understanding ...

Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...

The James Webb Space Telescope zoomed in on extremely faint ... "Webb, for the first time, has been able to probe up to and beyond that limit," Michael Meyer, an astronomer at the University ...

This near-infrared image of a portion of the Flame Nebula from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope highlights three ... pressure from gravity they heat up, and if there is enough material then ...

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In a new call for proposals, DARPA envisions living materials that could self-assemble into antennas, nets to capture debris, ...

In contrast, the James Webb Space Telescope has several observing modes ... “It’s about opening up a new window on the universe.” Although the data that the spacecraft gathers will be ...