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Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a ...

A glass bead retrieved by China's Chang'e-5 lunar mission is offering a glimpse into the moon's hidden interior and violent past. Witness live views of Earth from the International Space Station as it ...

For decades, astronomers have discovered hundreds of protoplanetary disks—structures believed to represent the early stages ...

"How planets are born is an unsolved area of research," astrophysicist Daniel Price of Australia's Monash University told ...

In photos The details in this photograph include the airglow of the atmosphere dividing Earth from space — yellow-green at an altitude of 75 miles and a faint reddish hue 250 miles above the ...

These images feature zodiacal light — the faint, diffuse glow created by sunlight scattering off dust particles in orbit.

You know his voice in his iconic song parodies, but do you recognize "Weird Al" Yankovic's voice from his many animated movie ...

As instrument commissioning and calibration checks continue for NASA's newly launched PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona ...

The research put subjects' fingers in water for 30 minutes, taking photos and then repeating the ... the research also could have real-world applications in forensics, such as fingerprinting ...

It was a good steward, erecting a solar array, using existing structures to house the buildings and grounds operation, and allowing the creation of a preschool," she wrote. "The well-being of the ...