A consensus is emerging that the dots, sometimes called rubies, are an entirely new type of object in the Universe.

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Earth’s turbulent atmosphere makes it hard to detect new planets from the ground. Astronomer Rebecca Jensen-Clem is working ...

PoET and ESPRESSO telescopes are new tools that will eliminate stellar noise and detect Earth-like planets around Sun-like ...

Despite its astonishing success, JWST has a flaw that made its observations on some targets borderline unusable, but PhD ...

You’ve got a laser cutter. You’ve got a 3D printer. What do you make? [Ayushmaan45] suggests a telescope. The modest instrument isn’t going to do serious astronomy with only 8X ...

Since Pluto was relegated to dwarf planet status, almost everyone has agreed that there are eight planets in our solar system ...

Today’s social media influencers have a large impact on society. One hundred years ago Brattleboro had its own 1900’s version ...

Two students have engineered a fix to improve the imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope interferometer. They did this ...

Dark matter is a fundamental hypothesis when it comes to our understanding of the universe, but it remains a hypothesis. We ...

On July 2, 2025, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (Fermi-GBM) captured around three hours' worth of signals that appeared ...