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The James Webb space telescope has captured unprecedented direct images of a planet beyond our own solar system, in its first exoplanet discovery.

The observations reveal a planet, which has been called TWA 7b, carving its way through a disc of…

A spacecraft carrying the remains of more than 160 people crashed into the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, June 24, causing its contents to be lost at sea. The mission intended to return the remains to the…

The Falkland Islands greet visitors with low grasses, rocky ridges, and relentless sea spray. Yet beneath that stern exterior, researchers have just uncovered a buried forest that flourished long before humans or sheep ever set foot on the…

On November 13, 2020, a pair of European Space Agency spacecraft—Mars Express and the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter—set out to gain a deeper understanding of the Martian ionosphere. Utilizing an advanced method known as mutual radio occultation,…

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,” which has been designated TWA 7b, also…

Bachand even threw out the industry-standard rubber gaskets used to seal a watch case against water. “That will start to degrade below -40°C,” he says. “We looked at the airlocks for the ISS and found a partner that can make an O-ring seal…

Since it began its science operations in July 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope has been probing the atmospheres of alien planets to study their potential for habitability. For the first time,…

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has recently revealed fascinating new details about the Martian surface, offering scientists their first close-up images of a region previously observed only from orbit. These stunning images uncover a series of low…

Paleontologists from the University of Kansas have uncovered an extraordinary fossil of an ancient marsupial-like creature, Swaindelphys solastella, in Big Bend National Park, Texas. This new discovery, published in the Journal of Vertebrate…