On Mars or the Moon, researchers use high-resolution optical cameras to spot “skylights,” which are essentially holes in the ...

Observation is fundamental to science. In fact, one could even argue that science is observation, nourished and channeled for the purpose of better understanding what our world is and how it works.

Astronomers around the world will have immediate access to early data from specific science observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, which will be completed within the first five months of ...

Astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and elsewhere have used the Subaru Telescope to perform deep imaging observations of a distant globular cluster known as NGC 5466 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In the first year of its scientific operations, the James Webb Space Telescope will study small ...

Record-breaking total of 15,000+ citizen science observations from the SETI Institute & Unistellar Network — up substantially from ~10,000 in 2024. Observers are already tracking fading 3I/ATLAS, new ...

Recent advances in cometary science have yielded unprecedented insights into the composition, dynamics and evolution of cometary nuclei and their surrounding comae. Studies now demonstrate that comets ...