The mystery of Mercury has been unraveling since 1974, but until now, the planet’s surface remained blurry and unclear. With ...

What did we really see when we looked at Mars for the first time with human-made eyes? In this powerful visual journey, we ...

In early November 2024, a photograph purportedly released by NASA and showing a detailed view of Jupiter circulated on social media. "NASA Just Dropped Some of the Sharpest Images of Jupiter to ...

What's more, the observatory's images will feed into computer systems ... more rocks than anyone has turned over before." If Planet 9 is real, this observatory has around a 70 to 80 percent ...

When I give a public talk about space and show off the latest dazzling images from the Hubble Space Telescope or James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), one of the most common questions I get is ...

For example, to see a planet 100 light years away as anything more than a dot you’d need a telescope way bigger than New York City. You might recall these pictures of the black holes ...

Likewise, NASA published two other similar images of the dwarf planet in August and September 2015. Reputable not-for-profit The Planetary Society included @MAstronomer's photo in a 2015 webpage ...

The planet was discovered in 2018 around the real star 40 Eridani A — the very same star that hosts Spock's home planet in the famous sci-fi series. However, recent follow-up observations of the ...

The port and its surroundings can be seen in one of Planet’s largest swaths captured to date. Pelican-2 First Light imagery taken over the Port of Laem Chabang, Thailand from March 12 ...

The star is one of the hottest targets in astronomy, as the TRAPPIST system’s planets are good candidates for potentially hosting life. The images are ... Perhaps the real excitement lies ...

They used modern telescopes to re-assess artificially enhanced images taken by NASA's Voyager 2 probe. We can now see how both planets would likely look to the naked eye. Neptune isn't the rich ...

For centuries—and, frankly, until quite recently—astronomers were baffled by planet formation ... brilliant glare and deliver high-resolution images of any sizable circumstellar disk.