Harvard and Smithsonian (CfA), and its Submillimeter Array (SMA), were critical for identifying a cache of belts surrounding other stars beyond the sun where comets may reside. Regions around 74 stars ...

De Gregorio, the ESO's representative in Chile, warns that the country's unique "window onto the universe" could close, ...

The system is believed to be traveling at least 1.2 million miles per hour (1.93 million kilometers per hour), according to a ...

Using clever light-detecting techniques, ExTrA searches red dwarf stars for planets that might support life. By studying tiny ...

Nasa using world’s most powerful telescope to examine asteroid that could smash into Earth - Research should better refine ...

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 ...

Hubble’s high-resolution imagery allowed researchers to hone in on more of the Bullseye galaxy’s rings — and helped confirm ...

The discovery was made by Imad Pasha, a doctoral student at Yale University, who stumbled upon the unique galaxy while examining a ground-based imaging survey. "This ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

A newly discovered asteroid named 2024 YR4 now has a 2.2% chance of affecting Earth in 2032 after recent observations.

A stronomers using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile have imaged a filament of the ...