NASA has confirmed 6,000 exoplanets, marking a major milestone in humanity’s quest to understand other worlds. From gas ...
Why build a telescope? YOLO, as the kids say. Having decided that, one must decide what type of far-seer one will construct.
TRAPPIST-1e shows no signs of its first atmosphere, but hints of a secondary one remain. Liquid water could still be possible ...
Finding another Earth is the holy grail of modern astronomy. NASA’s upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is ...
Astronomers are using radio pulses from space to find missing baryonic matter and learn about supermassive black holes, ...
The world’s largest space telescope, comprising thousands of antennae in the southern hemisphere, will generate massive amounts of data — some of which will be processed in Canada.
Kevin France, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Colorado Boulder, discusses the Habitable Worlds Observatory, ...
Using the wide-field survey capabilities of the Subaru Telescope, astronomers discovered active supermassive black holes, or ...
The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...
Astronomers have used observatories around the world, including the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO ...
NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications technology has successfully shown that data encoded in lasers can be reliably transmitted, received, and decoded after traveling millions of miles from Earth ...
Astronomers detect a fast radio burst from 10 billion years ago, FRB 20240304B, revealing clues about the early universe.