The space telescope’s findings challenge the notion of a galaxy brimming with life.
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Ground-based facilities enable the greatest scientific production in all of astronomy. The NSF needs to be ambitious, and it’s now or never.
Lasers, mirrors, and computational advances can all work together to push ground-based astronomy past the limits of our atmosphere.
With LEDs bringing brighter nighttime lighting than ever before, and thousands of new satellites polluting the skies, astronomy needs help.
The detection of two celestial interlopers careening through our solar system has scientists eagerly anticipating more.
Each of our three nearest stars might have an Earth-like planet in orbit around it. Here’s what we’ll learn when we finally observe it.
Individual space telescopes, like Hubble and JWST, revolutionized our knowledge of the Universe. What if we had an array of them, instead?
The asteroid is expected to come within 140,000 miles of Earth — well inside the moon’s orbit.
Freethink’s weekly countdown of the biggest space news, featuring Starship’s second test flight, a new “dark mysteries” telescope, and more.
NASA’s only flagship X-ray telescope ever, Chandra, still works and has no planned successor. So why does the President want to kill it?
Size matters, but it’s not the only thing.
The JWST’s observations of well-developed galaxies early in universal history may coincide with accepted astronomical theory after all.
Air currents in our atmosphere limit the resolving power of giant telescopes, but computers and artificial stars can sharpen the blur.
In 1957, humanity launched our first satellite; today’s number is nearly 10,000, with 500,000+ more planned. Space is no longer pristine.
It’s a radical but plausible idea.
Like humans, stars die. The James Webb Space Telescope’s early images already give us a lot of information about how this happens.
On Saturday, October 14, a solar eclipse crosses North and South America. Here are 4 quick, easy, low-tech activities for everyone to enjoy!
It is a story with nebulous beginnings and no discernible end.
On July 12, 2022, JWST will release its first science images. Here are 5 ways the telescope’s findings could change science forever.
The Universe isn’t as “clumpy” as we think it should be.
Humanity’s newest, most powerful space telescope is performing even better than predicted. The reason why is unprecedented.
With no other galaxies in its vicinity for ~100 million light-years in all directions, it’s as isolated and lonely as a galaxy can be.
The first tests of optical communications far from Earth will take place aboard the asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft
NASA has finally chosen which flagship mission, like Hubble and JWST, will launch in ~2040. Detecting alien life is now a reachable goal.
A history of injustice and the greatest natural location for ground-based telescopes have long been at odds. Here’s how the healing begins.
With infrared capabilities and image sharpness far beyond Hubble’s limits, JWST looked at Hubble’s deepest field, revealing so much more.
Dispatches host Kmele Foster is on a journey to understand humanity’s role in the cosmos. His first stop? The Atacama Plateau in Northern Chile, home to the darkest deserts and largest telescopes on earth.
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Finding it at all was a happy accident. Examining it further may help unlock the secrets hiding within the earliest galaxies of all.
An interview with Lisa Kaltenegger, the founding director of the Carl Sagan Institute, about the modern quest to answer an age-old question: “Are we alone in the cosmos?”
Sometimes, going “deeper” doesn’t reveal the answers you seek. By viewing more Universe with better precision, ESA’s Euclid mission shines.