NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will see the first galaxies to form after the Big Bang, but to do that, its instruments first need to get cold—really cold. On April 7, Webb's Mid-Infrared Instrument ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is gearing up to peer into the first galaxies in the early universe. But in order to do that, the powerful telescope has to get super cold. Luckily, its final ...

The extremely low operational temperature of just a tenth of a degree above absolute zero (0.1 K) has been reached on the detectors of Planck’s High Frequency Instrument (HFI). This makes the HFI ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is armed with four instruments, three of which work in the near-infrared and the last of which, MIRI or the Mid-Infrared Instrument, works in the mid-infrared. That ...

DAVINCI will send a meter-diameter probe to brave the high temperatures and pressures near Venus’ surface to explore the atmosphere from above the clouds to near the surface of a terrain that may have ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will see the first galaxies to form after the big bang, but to do that its instruments first need to get cold – really cold. On April 7, Webb’s Mid-Infrared ...

The VASI (Venus Atmospheric Structure Investigation) instrument aboard NASA’s Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging, or DAVINCI, mission to Venus, together with ...