"In 2024, Russian telescopes performed 1,231 astro-photometric measurements [determination of the brightness of a celestial body] of small bodies in the solar system, including potentially dangerous ...

On April 6, 1984, Challenger became a trailblazer in satellite servicing, repairing the malfunctioning Solar Maximum Mission ... those for the Hubble Space Telescope. On Jan. 28, 1986, NASA's ...

NASA added that people planning on viewing the event should wear "eclipse glasses or a solar telescope to view the ... Iceland, Spain, Russia, and a small part of Portugal. It will be partial ...

Over the past 200 years, astronomers have cataloged over a million asteroids in the solar system’s main belt ... data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to spot some tiny asteroids ...

A rundown of some of the exciting sky events — including meteor showers and the first total lunar eclipse for the U.S. since ...

With next-generation telescopes, tiny space probes, and more, scientists aim to search for life beyond our solar system—and ... In 2015 Yuri Milner, a Russian-born venture capitalist ...

In taking celestial photographs the telescope is used as the camera ... twenty-seven-thousandth of a second is required to fix the solar image. Even this small fraction however, inconceivably ...

The next total solar eclipse will occur on August 12, 2026 and will be visible in Greenland, Iceland, Spain, Russia, and the north-easterly ... your camera's lens or over the objective lens of your ...

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...