Two students have engineered a fix to improve the imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope interferometer. They did this ...
After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA's US$10 ...
The wavelengths of radio light are so large that you can't capture a high-resolution image with a single dish. To capture an ...
Just how big would a telescope need to be to actually see an alien world in detail? The James Webb Telescope just took a photo of a newly discovered exoplanet. Exciting stuff but the raw image just ...
Earth’s turbulent atmosphere makes it hard to detect new planets from the ground. Astronomer Rebecca Jensen-Clem is working ...
Mike Brown is convinced that beyond Neptune, at the far reaches of our solar system, there's an unseen giant planet. "This is the 5th largest planet in our solar system, lurking out there, waiting to ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A composite image of the star-forming region NGC 6357. New research shows a young star in NGC ...
It was put on Webb to diagnose and measure any blur in its images. Even nanometres of distortion in Webb’s 18 hexagonal ...