NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows off its capabilities closer to home with its first image of Neptune. Not only has Webb captured the clearest view of this distant planet’s rings in more than 30 years, but its cameras reveal the ice giant in a whole new light.  

Image: An artist’s impression shows what a binary system might look like if we were observing it up close. A team of international experts  have found a dormant stellar-mass black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy that neighbors the Milky Way. The team includes Kareem El-Badry of the Center for …

NASA released the first science-quality image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope on Monday (July 11) during an event at the White House hosted by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. The image, dubbed Webb’s First Deep Field, is the deepest infrared view of the universe to …

Bennu is a “rubble-pile” asteroid, meaning that it formed from the debris of a much larger asteroid that was destroyed by an ancient impact. Fragments from the collision coalesced under their own weak gravity to form Bennu. The team used unprecedented, high-resolution global data sets to examine craters on Bennu: …

NASA and ESA (European Space Agency), its partner in the Mars Sample Return Program, have established a new group of researchers to maximize the scientific potential of Mars rock and sediment samples that would be returned to Earth for in-depth analysis. Called the Mars Sample Return Campaign Science Group, the …

At long last, Canon has re-entered the astrophotography market with the release of its EOS Ra Mirrorless camera. While most DSLR and mirrorless cameras work well for general photography, they often require modification to perform best while imaging the night sky. This is the third “a” camera from Canon after …

A concept in development at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory would allow potential planetary missions to chase interesting clues in subsurface oceans. Someday, a swarm of cellphone-size robots could whisk through the water beneath the miles-thick icy shell of Jupiter’s moon Europa or Saturn’s moon Enceladus, looking for signs of alien …

Ever wonder what that constellation overhead is? With the SkyView app you can. (Android), (iOS) skyView uses augmented reality to identify galaxies, stars, constellations, planets, and satellites. You can set the app for notifications for celestial events and have them appear on your lock screen with a widget.

في فبراير 2021، أصبحت دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة أول دولة عربية وخامس دولة تصل إلى المريخ، بالتزامن مع عام الذكرى السنوية الخمسين لدولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة. بعد السفر 306 ملايين ميل في سبعة أشهر، يدور مسبار الأمل الإماراتي الآن حول الكوكب الأحمر. باستخدام ثلاث أدوات علمية متطورة، يقوم هوب بجمع …

Nearly 140 million miles away on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover is searching for life and measuring the age and makeup of the Red Planet. The fourth rover to explore our planetary neighbor uses laser spectrometry to analyze the elements found on the surface by firing a laser at a sample …