A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

Straight south in the early evening is the familiar constellation Orion. Above Orion, to the northeast, the constellation ...

HWO will be the first space telescope built to find potentially habitable planets and analyze their atmospheres for signs of ...

"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...

Currently under construction on the Chilean mountain Cerro Pachón, the Rubin Observatory is expected to begin its 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) later this year. An influx of data ...

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Astronomers and engineers have developed a specialized system for their radio telescope to rapidly detect mysterious fast radio bursts and other space phenomena. The first trial of an Australian ...

By Jonathan Corum Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could ... The blaze threatened the observatory and communications infrastructure at the peak.

The idea of traveling through interstellar space using spacecraft propelled ... Using the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) and the Apache Point Observatory (APO), an international team of ...

What a way to kick off the work week: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will carry Starlink internet-beaming satellites into low-Earth orbit from Kennedy Space Center, a Federal Aviation Administration ...

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