NASA telescopes deliver stellar bouquet in time for Valentine's day
A bouquet of thousands of stars in bloom has arrived. This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made of the ...
SPHEREx space telescope will seek life's ingredients
Where is all the water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons? The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will search the ...
‘Ultrahigh Energy’ Neutrino Found With a Telescope Under the Sea
The team announced its “ultrahigh energy” neutrino on Wednesday, in a paper published in the journal Nature. The finding ...
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Brown astronomers create new technique to eliminate signals disrupting sensitive radio telescopes
An unexpected television signal traced to an airplane led to a new method for pinpointing unwanted radio signals, as growing ...
Webb telescope has a new mission: surveillance of a threatening asteroid
The Webb telescope is well-suited to identify asteroid 2024 YR4's size. Webb views a type of light we can't see with the ...
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Stars Being Scouted For Ideal Habitable Zone Conditions By Chandra X-ray Telescope
The Chandra X-ray telescope and other observatories are being used to study stars that could potentially harbor habitable planets. Future observatories will use the data to narrow down the list for ...
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This New ‘Astro Trail’ in Arizona Is Located in One of the ‘Astronomy Capitals of the World'—and Makes Stops at Observatories, State Parks, and More
In January 2025, the city added another feather to its cap when it launched a new Astro Trail, a curated collection of ...
Scientists alarmed as Rubin Observatory changes biography of astronomer Vera Rubin amid Trump's push to end DEI efforts
Astronomers are expressing disappointment and alarm as the federally-funded Rubin Observatory altered the biography of ...
NASA’s New, $4 Billion Space Telescope Will Unravel a Great Cosmic Mystery
“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...
Tiny Telescope, Big Discoveries: How ExTrA Hunts for Earth-Like Worlds
Using clever light-detecting techniques, ExTrA searches red dwarf stars for planets that might support life. By studying tiny ...
Edits to Vera Rubin’s Biography Downplay the Need for Women in Science Amid Federal DEI Crackdown
To comply with Trump's executive order about DEI, a federally funded telescope project has altered the biography of its ...
James Webb Space Telescope unveils region with newborn star: See stunning photo
HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals ...