In 2022, NASA intentionally smashed its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART ... as seen in spectacular images taken by ...

Recently, researchers have gotten creative and found a way to use Hubble data to detect previously unknown asteroids that are mostly located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

The treasure hunt required perusing 37,000 Hubble images spanning 19 years. The payoff was finding 1,701 asteroid trails, with 1,031 of the asteroids previously uncatalogued. About 400 of these ...

I'm an award-winning journalist writing about the night sky & eclipses NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been hit by a micrometeoroid, which has damaged one of the 18 beryllium-gold ...

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This image shows two views of the same spiral galaxy, called IC 5332, as seen by two NASA observatories – the James Webb Space Telescope’s observations appear at the top left and the Hubble ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. A science instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been switched off and on again by NASA engineers after the spacecraft was ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed that the Hubble Space Telescope's keen eye was right all along, erasing any lingering doubt about Hubble's measurements. One of the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is about to begin full science operations, six months after its launch to orbit. The new observatory will be even more revolutionary than its predecessor ...

Shortly after announcing that those images would release in July, though, dire news was shared – a micrometeoroid had hit ...

Apr. 30, 2024 — NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the sharpest infrared images to date of a zoomed-in portion of one of the most distinctive objects in our skies, the Horsehead Nebula.