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Using the Very Large Telescope in Chile, a team led by PhD student Kevin Hoy has found strong evidence for a Jupiter-mass moon-like object orbiting a brown dwarf 71 light-years away — the first plausible detection of an exosatellite.
For the first time, Hubble and Webb joined forces to find 27 tiny icy worlds beyond Neptune — one just 5 km wide and as faint as fireflies on the Moon. Their colors reveal they still remember how the Solar System was built.
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched August 30, 2026 and is now cruising a million miles to L2 — carrying a 300.8-megapixel camera that will map the sky a thousand times faster than Hubble and beam home 1.4 terabytes of data every day.
A Falcon 9 upper stage left a fresh crater on the Moon on 5 August 2026, and NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter quickly turned it into a wonderfully clear lesson in lunar detective work. From a six-day wait for the right viewing angle to bright and dark ejecta that reveal different layers of regolith, this tiny impact is full of big clues.
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is heading toward an Aug. 30, 2026 launch, and the mission promises something wonderfully easy to love: Hubble-like sharpness across a far wider piece of sky. With a 2.4-metre mirror, a 300-megapixel wide-field camera, and a coronagraph built to hush starlight, Roman could make the next decade of cosmic discovery feel beautifully expansive.
A close sweep past Mars has given NASA’s Psyche spacecraft a 1,000-mile-per-hour boost, a fresh set of striking images, and a cleaner path toward one of the solar system’s most intriguing worlds: the metal-rich asteroid Psyche.
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft turned a graceful Mars flyby into a speed boost toward a rare metal-rich asteroid. It is a fun reminder that space travel can work like reading a tide: patient, precise, and beautifully timed.
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is moving through launch preparations for an Aug. 30, 2026 target, with Hubble-sharp vision and a view at least 100 times wider. Here’s why this new cosmic eye feels like a panoramic treasure map for galaxies, dark energy, and faraway worlds.
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has moved upright at Kennedy Space Center, a bright launch-prep milestone before its no-earlier-than Aug. 30, 2026 liftoff. Think of Roman as a panoramic camera for the universe — one that can help families imagine galaxies, planets, and starlight in a beautifully bigger frame.
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