The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum is celebrating 50 years since the building in Washington, D.C., opened to the public and will commemorate this milestone throughout 2026. The museum ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the most distant, early galaxy in the known universe. The new contender, MoM-z14, is visible just 280 million years after the Big Bang.
TESS tracks interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in a rare January 2026 run, revealing brightness changes that hint at spin, dust, and ...
By scanning nearly 100 million images, researchers uncovered rare galaxies, gravitational lenses and mysterious objects lurking in NASA’s historic archive.