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Webb Space Telescope Images Mars for the First Time
The Webb Space Telescope returned its first images of Mars. The data comes from the telescope’s infrared…
First Underground Radar Images from Mars Perseverance Rover Provides an…
The Mars Perseverance Rover has been probing Mars' 30-mile-wide Jezero crater. In the journal Science Advances, a…
3D Printing Nickel Single Crystals Using Laser Additive Manufacturing
NIMS and Osaka University researchers succeeded in fabricating a nickel single crystal with only a very few…
Gateway™: The Deep Space Launch Complex Opens at Kennedy Space Center
An F-104 Starfighter (hopefully named after the 1984 movie, the Last Starfighter or the Star Wars spacecraft)…
Finding New Particles Around Black Holes
Ultralight particle clouds can form around rotating black holes. Physicists from the University of Amsterdam and…
Rare “Black Widow” Binary has Shortest Orbit
MIT astronomers have locked onto a mysterious system 3,000 light years from Earth—a "black widow binary." The…
Supernova Survivor Revealed by Hubble
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope uncovered a companion star previously hidden in the glare of its partner's supernova.…
NASA’s Webb Ready for Instrument Commissioning
The alignment of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is finished, and it's ready to capture images with its four…
Using X-ray Polarimetry in Space Exploration
An Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) launched by NASA on 9 December 2021 is a space-based observatory.…
Space—The Sound of Perseverance
NASA's Perseverance mission is taking the first-ever recordings of the soundscape on Mars. Perseverance recorded…