Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

Feb. 27, 2025 — Scientists are designing a satellite and instruments capable of detecting space debris as small as 1 centimeter, less than one-half inch. Debris that small, which cannot ...

Hera is a binary asteroid exploration mission led by the European Space Agency (ESA) and equipped with the Thermal InfraRed Imager (TIRI) developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). On ...

The region around a body where its magnetic field influences space is known as its magnetosphere. Jupiter’s magnetic field is so vast that its magnetosphere extends out as far as the orbit of ...

Launched in 2010 together with the Venus Climate Orbiter, Akatsuki, the Small Solar Power Sail Demonstration Satellite, IKAROS unfurled a large, lightweight membrane measuring 14m on each side, with a ...