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Grant and Cugno used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to pick out the infrared glow from the disk of gas and dust ...

A 2023 astronaut photo shows three dark hills, or mesas, towering above part of the Sahara desert in southern Mauritania. The ...

Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a sprawling helium cloud known as an exosphere. This exosphere stretches ...

The satellite is operated and run by Blue Skies Space, a U.K.-space science data company and was launched aboard SpaceX’s ...

Contributed by Dawn Wright, Chief Scientist, Esri Animals across the globe are running out of places to live. Populations of ...

Scientists have detected tiny lightning bolts on Mars for the first time — they were found discharging around NASA's ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

The UK has taken a major step forward in space-based climate science with the successful launch of HydroGNSS, a new pair of ...

The picture-perfect launch of twin Escapade orbiters bound for Mars presages a fantastical new age in exploring the planets, ...

Ahead of COP30, the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) played a leading role in coordinating interagency ...

The new satellite, Sentinel-6B, was part of a billion-dollar project to measure long-term changes in sea level around the ...