Author: Astronomy Staff

Robotic Spaceflight, Space Exploration

Mars mission given green light by NASA to proceed to development

Science, Solar System

Hubble probes comet 103P/Hartley 2 in preparation for flyby

Robotic Spaceflight, Space Exploration

Mission shows evolution of conditions at edge of solar system

Exoplanets, Science

Mission warms up but keeps chugging along

Science, Solar System

Researchers explore orbital environment for Dawn spacecraft at Vesta

Science, Solar System

Archaeologist and colleagues find no evidence of catastrophic impact

Milky Way, Science

Milky Way sidelined in galactic tug of war

Exoplanets, Science

Researchers find first potentially habitable exoplanet

Robotic Spaceflight, Space Exploration

The Webb telescope’s unique structural “heart” passes extreme tests

Science, Solar System

Pan-STARRS discovers its first potentially hazardous asteroid

Science, Solar System

The many faces of the Venus polar vortex

Science

Does the Hubble Space Telescope actually take a number of sub-exposures and then stack them? If so, how long are typical sub-frames?