Currently, 5,788 exoplanets have been confirmed in 4,326 star systems, while thousands more candidates await confirmation. So ...

To resolve the black hole, they used the Event Horizon Telescope, a global radio telescope array with an effective aperture ...

A bird that mimicked a black hole. The astronomer who discovered microwave ovens. A telescope that can fly. The science of ...

Since 2018 the Zwicky Transient Facility, an international astronomical collaboration based at the Palomar Observatory in ...

Gammapy is an open-source Python package for gamma-ray astronomy built on Numpy, Scipy and Astropy. It is used as core library for the Science Analysis tools of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), ...

A massive aeroplane-sized asteroid is moving towards Earth at a fiery speed on December 13th. Is it a matter of threat for ...

The communications lag between Earth and Jupiter means missions to Europa will need to be smart to deal with problems on ...

That is reason enough for astronomy students to learn the topic, but the powerful applications of lensing to studies of galaxies and cosmology make it one of the essential tools of astronomy. Dodelson ...

The telescope and its magnifying power changed astronomy forever. Galileo's telescope allowed him to magnify the planets, just points of light to the unaided eye, into bright discs covered in ...

first detailed in 1996 by economist Robin Hanson. The most distilled essence of the Great Filter argument is simple: Very few ...

A new report lays out a comprehensive strategy to advance solar and space physics over the next decade, helping safeguard ...

Slingshot Aerospace uses ground-based optical sensors to track satellites and other space objects and help prevent collisions ...