Using clever light-detecting techniques, ExTrA searches red dwarf stars for planets that might support life. By studying tiny ...
You may have heard of the Very Large Telescope, but did you know it can function as a massive 200-meter-wide virtual telescope? Or that it outperforms many newer telescopes with its sheer scientific ...
While it is already dimming after a close encounter with the sun, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) – also called the Great Comet of ...
An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.
By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, ...
Software engineers have been hard at work to establish a common language for a global conversation. The topic—revealing the ...
Experts have found water in the universe for the first time in history, and it could be one of the greatest achievements ever made ...
Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) seen above ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile on Jan. 21, 2025. ESO's Very Large Telescope sits atop ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured this striking image of an unusual galaxy with a bullseye structure, as nine rings ...
Featuring the world’s largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture these mysterious phenomena in more ...