Water and Dust Found Surviving near Milky Way’s Central Black Hole
Using data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers found that IRS 3 — a bloated giant…
Astronomers Find Black Hole Star in Early Universe
Roughly 660 million years after the Big Bang, a strange bright red spot has been hiding in plain…
Webb Captures Stunning Infrared View of Eskimo Nebula
New infrared observations of the Eskimo Nebula, a bipolar double-shell planetary nebula in the constellation of Gemini, reveal…
Webb Finds Stellar ‘Treasure Chest’ in Carina Nebula
A stunning new image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope reveals a comet-shaped cloud in the Carina…
Northrop Grumman, Canadian Space Agency repurpose their Gateway projects
WASHINGTON — Northrop Grumman and the Canadian Space Agency said this week they will adapt what they had…
Astronomers Find Omega Centauri’s First Stellar-Mass Black Hole
After decades of searching, astronomers have pinpointed the first of an estimated 10,000 stellar-mass black holes thought to…
Astronomers Discover and Directly Image Third Planet in Beta Pictoris System
Named Beta Pictoris d, the newly-discovered world is 100 times fainter than Beta Pictoris b — the first…
Webb Reveals Hidden Heart of Centaurus A
Celebrating four years of science, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has pierced the thick dust of the…
Webb Maps Millions of Stars in Messier 82
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has resolved roughly 16.5 million stars in the edge-on spiral galaxy Messier…
MDA Space wins contract for Radarsat replenishment satellite
WASHINGTON — MDA Space will build a radar imaging satellite for the Canadian Space Agency as the government…
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Formed Up To 12 Billion Years Ago, New Observations Suggest
The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS carries a chemical fingerprint unlike anything in our Solar System, and it may have…
Astronomers Find Four Separate Generations of Stars in ‘Globular Cluster’ Terzan 5
A globular cluster typically has only one ancient star population. New data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space…