Barnard’s Star Finally Has a Planet, and Possibly More
For a century, exoplanet hunters have “discovered” planets around a nearby star, only to retract the claims. But the latest ...
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It's the 10-year anniversary of the first image of a human-made object touching a 4.6 billion-year-old comet
Its CIVA (Comet Infrared and Visible Analyser) cameras took the first image of a human-made object touching a 4.6 ...
A Giant Leap for Astronomy: Telescope for NASA’s Roman Mission Complete
NASA's Roman Space Telescope has received its Optical Telescope Assembly, paving the way for its mission to explore the ...
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It happened today – this day in history – November 16
AD: Birth of Tiberius, second emperor of the Roman Empire 1272: Henry III dies aged 65. 1380: French King Charles ...
First-Ever ‘Einstein Zig-Zag’ Found in Space Could Help Solve the Universe’s Expansion Mystery
A compound lens forged by two galaxies is helping astronomers get a bead on the Hubble Constant and dark energy.
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Astronomers Shocked as JWST Uncovers Massive Galaxies That Challenge Gravity Theory. Is Dark Matter Theory Wrong?
New observations suggest that the universe’s oldest galaxies are brighter than expected. Here's why this may be a big deal.
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NASA Satellites Reveal Abrupt Drop in Global Freshwater Levels
An international team of scientists using observations from NASA-German satellites found evidence that Earth’s total amount ...
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The Arecibo Message, Earth’s First Interstellar Transmission, Turns 50
The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...
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Beyond the Sea of Stars: Modernizing and Streamlining Space-Related Export Controls for a New Frontier
The US Departments of Commerce and State (together, the Departments) have taken significant steps to update US export control rules pertaining ...
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'The bottom line is, I told you so': JWST observations upend standard model of how galaxies form, new study claims
The James Webb Space Telescope's discovery of unusually bright and massive galaxies soon after the Big Bang has cast doubt on the standard model of galaxy evolution and bolstered a rival theory for ...
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Roman Optical Telescope Assembly (IMAGE)
Upon arrival at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, the Optical Telescope Assembly for the agency's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was lifted out of the shipping fixture and placed with other ...