It was put on Webb to diagnose and measure any blur in its images. Even nanometres of distortion in Webb’s 18 hexagonal ...

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

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The gravitational lensing that causes this rare phenomenon cannot be explained solely by looking at observable ...

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

A study led by Howard Chen looks to explain what NASA space telescopes are missing in the search for life beyond Earth.

According to data from the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, the origins of the free-flying photons in the early cosmic ...