Gaia Completes Its Stellar Odyssey, Leaving a Cosmic Legacy
The Gaia mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has completed a decade of groundbreaking astronomical observations, collecting over three trillion data points on two billion stars and ...
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Why NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory could be the ultimate exoplanet hunter
HWO will be the first space telescope built to find potentially habitable planets and analyze their atmospheres for signs of ...
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NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope to launch in February — it can do what the JWST can't
"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...
Caltech’s Lightsail Experiment Brings Interstellar Travel Closer to Reality
Powered by laser light, this tiny sail lays the groundwork for future advances in lightsail technology and the potential for ...