The director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which runs the James Webb Space Telescope, has afforded planetary defense scientists a special, unplanned use of the space observatory ...

Straight Shot: Hubble Investigates Galaxy With Nine Rings Feb. 4, 2025 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a cosmic bullseye! The gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424 is rippling with nine ...

The best telescopes allow you to observe this month's full planetary parade more closely and give you a front-row seat to the total lunar eclipse in March. The best telescopes unlock the wonders ...

An enormous array of detectors deep under the Mediterranean Sea has captured evidence of the highest-energy neutrino particle ever recorded, although researchers aren’t sure exactly where in the ...

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By contrast, two older X-ray telescopes, ESA’s XMM-Newton and, especially, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, both launched in 1999, can produce much higher-resolution images of the intra ...

Recent science updates include Boom Supersonic's XB-1 breaking the sound barrier, progress on the Extremely Large Telescope in Chile, and genetic engineering in China creating mice with two male ...

A rare breed of star recently discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope spins faster by feeding ... was not involved in the research, told Live Science. Although the blue lurker looks like a ...

Get closer to our solar companions with the best telescopes for seeing planets, just in time for February's fantastic planetary parade. Want to focus your stargazing on our cosmic neighbors ...