The wavelengths of radio light are so large that you can't capture a high-resolution image with a single dish. To capture an ...
Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...
After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA's US$10 ...
Anyone who studies planetary formation would relish the opportunity to get a close-up look at an interstellar object. Sending a mission to one would undoubtedly yield a scientific payoff. There’s a ...
A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...
Earth’s turbulent atmosphere makes it hard to detect new planets from the ground. Astronomer Rebecca Jensen-Clem is working ...
The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earth-like planets are common—if it can get off the ground ...
Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, ...
The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) will be the first telescope specifically engineered to identify habitable, Earth-like ...
The Mauve telescope, developed by London-headquartered start-up Blue Skies Space, is the size of a small suitcase and carries ...
Benjamin Pope receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Big Questions Institute. After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting ...
The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper’s authors have dubbed ...