Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in ...
Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...
A newly identified Kuiper Belt trio, possibly only the second of its kind, could provide strong evidence that these distant ...
The James Webb Space Telescope is investigating the Flame Nebula, hunting for "failed stars" to better understand how brown ...
2024 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft simultaneously set their sights on Uranus recently, allowing scientists to make a direct comparison of the planet from two very ...
With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered "middle-aged," and the pictures of what it might ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered into the atmosphere of a cosmic body that could be a ...
Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to sleuth out some of these objects, called brown dwarfs, in a vibrant star-forming region of our galaxy called the Flame Nebula. Brown dwarfs ...
It's a new type of three-body problem for astronomers, who used the Hubble Space Telescope to determine that twin asteroids ...
Astronomers using a cutting-edge adaptive optics instrument, MagAO-X, have captured unprecedented images of young planets ...
An advanced imaging system developed at the University of Arizona boasts a shape-shifting mirror that delivers observing ...