Space telescope spots rare 'Einstein ring' of light around galaxy in our cosmic neighborhood
Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy, astronomers reported Monday.
Tiny Telescope, Big Discoveries: How ExTrA Hunts for Earth-Like Worlds
Using clever light-detecting techniques, ExTrA searches red dwarf stars for planets that might support life. By studying tiny ...
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New fast radio burst detector could sift through 'a whole beach of sand' to solve big cosmic mystery
FRBs are sporadic, intense flashes of radio wave energy that can be brighter than entire galaxies. In just thousandths of a ...
Two space startups have merged to create the next generation of telescopes
On a clear spring evening in Michigan, the stars aligned — just not in the way Upfront Ventures partner Nick Kim expected. He ...
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NASA has created a more powerful James Webb Space Telescope for $488,000,000 to find answers from the beginning of time
NASA is launching a new space telescope more powerful than its James Webb counterpart which will be able to shed more light ...
James Webb Telescope baffles the scientific community: an ‘impossible’ planet discovered 48 light years away
First discovered in 2009, GJ 1214 b is described by the JWST team as being “sub-Neptune-sized” - smaller than the outermost ...
MIT names 10 breakthrough technologies to watch in 2025
These are the breakthrough technologies MIT believes will significantly change our lives not only in 2025 but for decades to ...
M87’s Black Hole in Motion: Stunning New Findings From the Event Horizon Telescope
Researchers using the Event Horizon Telescope have significantly advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at the center of M87, revealing new details about its rotation and the ...