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This fanciful yet scientifically guided tale describes a visit to the Moon, and is considered by many the first work of ...
A history of early science in northern Europe doesn’t sound like the most glamorous of topics. But Violet Moller brings this ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted MoM z14. It is the most distant galaxy ever seen. This galaxy existed 280 million years after the Big Bang. It redefines our view of galaxy formation.
China has completed its first overseas new-generation radio telescope in northern Thailand, bolstering a global scientific network that monitors deep space signals and tracks subtle shifts in the ...
One way for astronomers to circumvent limitations in the resolution of their telescopes is to combine the light from two or more telescopes, a technique called intensity interferometry.
When the Space Shuttle Discovery roared into the sky on that day, it carried the Hubble Space Telescope in its payload bay, and the astronauts aboard deployed it into low-Earth orbit soon thereafter.
The discovery, made by the James Webb Space Telescope, is a major step forward in filling in gaps in our understanding of how exoplanets develop. Like the Kuiper Belt in our solar system ...
The telescope has a 2.4-meter mirror, main types of science instruments, including a suite of spectrographs and cameras that have been upgraded through five astronaut-serviced missions. From mapping ...
Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications ...
Plans for a lunar far-side radio telescope, such as the proposed Dark Ages Explorer (DEX), aim to study the universe’s Cosmic Dark Ages and Cosmic Dawn by detecting redshifted 21-cm hydrogen ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (HawaiiNewsNow) - Construction of the controversial Thirty Meter Telescope atop Mauna Kea may not resume if the latest federal budget plan is approved by Congress. In its budget ...
(Spaceflux) Spaceflux is looking to make its short-wave infrared (SWIR) telescope testbed fully operational in August or September (third quarter [Q3]) of 2025, after using it to deliver daytime ...