Sometimes, in order to support an idea, you first have to discredit alternative, competing ideas that could take resources ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive, hidden exoplanet nestled in the dusty disc of a young star—MP Mus—by combining cutting-edge data from the ALMA observatory and ESA’s Gaia mission. Initially ...

The world's most powerful telescopes, including the James Webb Space Telescope and FAST, are revolutionizing our understanding of the universe. These advanced instruments, located on Earth and in ...

The powerful merger, designated GW231123, produced an extremely large black hole about 225 times the mass of our Sun.

Every time a large telescope is built, its designers must re-think the challenges, check every application, and improve on what has been done before. The 6.5-meter Baade and Clay telescopes were built ...

For organ-dedicated and large axial field of view positron emission tomography scanners, depth-of-interaction (DOI) encoding is indispensable to correct parallax errors at oblique angles. The ...