Imagine you are aboard the International Space Station, floating in microgravity, gazing down at Earth and up at the stars, only to notice that your vision is starting to blur. Yes, it’s real! As astronauts spend longer durations in microgravity, many begin to notice changes in their eyesight. Some astronauts even need stronger reading glasses […]
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NASA’s Webb spots ‘Sleeping Beauty’ galaxies in the early Universe
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a surprising group of 14 galaxies that paused their star-forming activity within the first billion years after the Big Bang. These “dormant” galaxies, found in a range of sizes, offer fresh clues about how galaxies grow and evolve in the universe’s infancy. Galaxies form stars […]
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Astronomers capture earliest stages of Planet formation around a baby star HOPS-315
Astronomers have detected the earliest stages of planet formation around a young star named HOPS-315, located 1,370 light-years away. Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the European Southern Observatory’s ALMA telescopes in Chile, scientists observed solid particles forming in the gas disk surrounding this star, which is only 100,000 to 200,000 years old. […]
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Captures Closest-Ever Images to Sun
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has achieved a historical milestone! It has sent back the closest images ever taken of the sun, offering a detailed look into its outer atmosphere. The images were captured during a record-setting approach on December 24, 2024, when the spacecraft flew just 3.8 million miles from the solar surface. These high-resolution […]
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NASA’s JWST captures the first direct images of an Exoplanet
An international team of astronomers has captured the first-ever direct image of an exoplanet with a mass similar to Saturn, using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The newly discovered planet, designated TWA 7 b, is orbiting a young red dwarf star called TWA 7, located about 34 light-years away in the TW Hydrae association. The […]
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Japanese Moon lander Resilience crash lands on Moon with a $16 million payload
Japan’s private moon lander hard-landed on the moon on June 5, 2025. The Japanese private aerospace company ispace launched the moon lander ‘Resilience’ to the moon’s Mare Frigoris region on January 15, 2025. The lander arrived in lunar orbit on May 7 and was scheduled to touch down on Thursday (June 5) at 3:24 p.m. […]
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Breakthrough! James Webb Space Telescope confirms presence of crystalline water ice in a nearby Star System
Researchers have confirmed the presence of crystalline water in space for the first time in human history! The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered crystalline water ice in a dusty debris disk orbiting the Sun-like star HD 181327, located 155 light-years away. Researchers used NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph) (a super-sensitive instrument designed to detect faint […]
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NASA: Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore will return in March
NASA has officially announced that the American astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, along with Crew-9 astronauts, are scheduled to return to Earth, while Crew-10 will launch on March 12. Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore docked at the International Space Station (ISS) in June 2024 aboard the Boeing Starliner for an 8-day mission. However, […]
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James Webb Telescope spots massive Milky Way–like galaxy just 600M years after Big Bang
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered a massive galaxy that existed just 600 million years after the Big Bang, weighing nearly as much as the Milky Way. The discovery was made in the galaxy cluster MACS J1423, and the object has been designated WEIC2429, nicknamed the “Firefly Sparkle Galaxy” for its glittering appearance. […]
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Donald Trump Nominates Billionaire Jared Isaacman as New NASA Administrator
U.S. President Donald J. Trump has nominated billionaire businessman and private astronaut Jared Isaacman to serve as the next administrator of NASA. The announcement came on December 4, 2024, with Isaacman set to replace Bill Nelson, who oversaw landmark missions including the James Webb Space Telescope, Artemis 1, and the DART asteroid impact test. In […]