The effort is aimed at helping the nation’s top funder of basic scientific research decide whether to consider awarding as much as $850 million to the next- generation TMT, which is now ...

The next great space telescope will study distant galaxies and faraway planets from an orbital outpost about a million miles from Earth. But first it has to be put together, piece by piece, in a ...

Astronomy leaders in the United States want to build two huge telescopes, the Giant Magellan Telescope and the Thirty Meter Telescope, the first covering the southern sky from Chile and the second ...

“There are three instances (all realizations about the sky before I was 12): First was when as a child, enthralled with the rockets of the space program, I realized that Mercury astronauts Shepard, ...

"With ZTF, we have now collected more Type Ia supernovae than all the surveys of the past thirty years had provided ... The first is the 1.2-meter (4-foot) diameter Samuel Oschin Telescope. It scans ...

At the end of February, it will mark one year under the leadership of the new director of the Free Library Director Wendy ...

HH 30, a fascinating Herbig-Haro object, serves as a cosmic laboratory for studying star formation and planetary evolution.

Captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), this celestial spectacle, known as Herbig Haro 30 or HH 30, highlights a ...

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Up until August 2024, the WISE spacecraft was one such observatory. The telescope was repurposed for asteroid and comet tracking after its original mission ended. In the next few years ...