The spacecraft bus for the Pandora exoplanet telescope has been complete. Pandora will analyze atmospheres of at least 20 exoplanets after its 2025 launch.
NASA's Webb Space Telescope has taken stunning new images of a binary star's dusty rings. The rings of Wolf-Rayet 140 are expanding at 1% the speed of light.
Astronomers at MIT have observed unusual black hole X-ray flashes that are accelerating in frequency. A white dwarf star near the black hole might be the cause.
On January 14, 2005, the Huygens spacecraft descended through the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan and landed on its surface. See the images of Titan.
A recent Hubble image reveals a spiral galaxy hosting a quasar. Typically, quasars are older galaxies that have grown very massive and are not spiral shaped.
ESA released new Mercury images from BepiColombo's final flyby of Mercury on January 8, 2025. The spacecraft will eventually go into orbit around Mercury.