The last time this was seen, humanity had only just begun to expand. Over the coming months, a celestial object that was last observed when Neanderthals walked the planet will be visible if you look up into the sky. A … Read More
Authors It is no exaggeration to say the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) represents a new era for modern astronomy. Launched on December 25 last year and fully operational since July, the telescope offers glimpses of the universe that were inaccessible … Read More
The Kepler Space Telescope has been scanning the cosmos for habitable worlds beyond our Solar System since its first light in 2009. During one of its routine observations, the telescope noticed something very unusual. A strange and intriguing star sits … Read More
New Mars images explore into the depths of the Red Planet’s Valles Marineris canyon, the solar system’s largest canyon system. The images taken by the European Space Agency (ESA) using the spacecraft’s High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) also show incredible … Read More
We thought we had seen everything but JWST just took it to another level. JWST surprised us in October with two new images of the famous Pillars of Creation, a cosmic feature of dust and gas made famous by Hubble. … Read More
Astronomers predict that a distant supernova previously imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope will be visible from Earth again in 2037. The Requiem supernova is the result of a stellar explosion 10 billion light-years away. Because of a phenomenon known … Read More