After three years of helping astronomers investigate known planets beyond the solar system, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered its first new planet. The extrasolar planet, or “exoplanet,”
After three years of helping astronomers investigate known planets beyond the solar system, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered its first new planet. The extrasolar planet, or “exoplanet,”
A powerful and mysterious blast of radio waves that astronomers believed was a fast radio burst (FRB) from far beyond the limits of the Milky Way has turned out to
The upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket treated stargazers in Europe to a surprise display on the night of June 23, when a plume of rocket propellant briefly
Deep in the constellation Canes Venatici, also called the Hunting Dogs, lies the dwarf galaxy NGC 4449. It’s part of the M94 galaxy group, near a group of galaxies to
TAMPA, Fla. — Denver-based Lux Aeterna emerged from stealth June 25 with $4 million in pre-seed funding to develop a fully reusable satellite slated to launch in 2027, equipped with
Is this a dark galaxy, made mostly of dark matter? Astronomers have named it CDG-2, for Candidate Dark Galaxy. It lies among a cluster of galaxies in the direction of
These are the highlights of the launch on Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) of ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski from Poland to the International Space Station. The mission is called Ignis.
The last Dragon spacecraft that SpaceX plans to build entered orbit for the first time with “grace.” Taking flight on Wednesday (June 25) from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida,
WASHINGTON — Maxar Intelligence launched a new monitoring product called Sentry, part of a broader effort to move beyond satellite imagery and become a provider of actionable geospatial intelligence. The
The new moon occurs on June 25. A day later, Mercury reaches its highest point in the evening sky, and on June 27, the young moon will make a close






