The two telescopes operate synchronously: Izaña-2 fires laser pulses at a piece of space debris high overhead, and Izaña-1 detects the reflected light. In doing so, the system is able to track the ...

"Gaia provides the first accurate view of what our section of the Milky Way would look like from above," Lewis McCallum, an astronomer at the University of St. Andrews in the United Kingdom and first ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists uncovered bizarre atmospheric structures on Saturn, including drifting “dark beads” in the ionosphere and an asymmetric star pattern in the ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining life.

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared camera (NIRCam) captured stunning imagery of Neptune, its rings and moons. It is the "clearest view of this peculiar planet’s rings in more than 30 years ...

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Astronomers have discovered that asteroid 1998 KY26, the target of Japan’s Hayabusa2 extended mission, is far smaller and faster-spinning than previously thought. Astronomers have conducted a new ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's s MIRI and NIRCam instruments have captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 2090. The galaxy is about 37 million light years away in the Columbia constellation.