12 May 2017
Warm Neptune with primitive atmosphere discovered
...project. Combining observations from NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, the team used data from transits – occasions when...,” said Hannah Wakeford, postdoctoral researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and lead author of this study. To...
20 April 2020
New research shows interstellar visitor 21/Borisov is not your average comet
... to visit our Solar System, comet 2I/Borisov. With telescopes trained to watch its passage through our cosmic backyard,... Martin Cordiner and colleagues who have used the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array...
05 October 2020
A dozen "superhabitable" planets better than Earth identified in new study
... efforts, such as from NASA's James Web Space Telescope, the LUVIOR space observatory and the European Space Agency's PLATO space telescope when they become operational. "With the next space telescopes coming up, we will get more information...
17 October 2019
Hubble gets a good look at interstellar visitor Comet 2I/Borisov
... of the Solar System’s building blocks, and this is very remarkable,” said Amaya Moro-Martin of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. Hubble photographed the comet at a distance of approximately 420 million kilometres from...
11 May 2020
Spacecraft and telescopes join forces to probe deep into Jupiter's atmosphere
... of the processed data easily accessible to other researchers through the Mikulski Archives for Space Telescopes (MAST) at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. "What's important is that we've managed to collect this huge data...
28 July 2021
Hubble helps astronomers find first evidence of water vapour at Ganymede
... sublimates -- that is, turns from solid to gas. Scientists used new and archival datasets from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to make the discovery, published in the journal Nature Astronomy. Previous research has offered circumstantial evidence that...
