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Some observatories that used to be dark and remote are now adjacent to bright urban centers. And sending all telescopes into ...
Radio astronomers like a bit of peace and quiet, so they're sending an historic first radio telescope to the Moon. To block ...
Scientists working to study black holes use specific radio frequencies to track black holes, the same frequencies often used ...
The ALMA radio telescope array in the Atacama Desert temporarily halted operations after a rare snowfall blanketed the base camp last week.
Stars don't form out of nothing, but tracking the gas and dust that do eventually form stars is hard. They float around the galaxy at almost absolute zero, emitting essentially no light, and generally ...
The earth doesn't rotate exactly on schedule. Scientists believe that today is going to be around a millisecond short of a ...
"For the first time, we have identified the earliest moment when planet formation is initiated around a star other than our ...
Less than a decade since the first detection of gravitational waves—ripples in spacetime itself—proposed budget cuts threaten to silence this groundbreaking science ...
YR4 was detected by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS telescope, in Río Hurtado, Chile, two days ...
Astronomers from the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) have discovered radio emission with circular polarisation near a massive young protostar.
Every night, as telescopes around the world open their domes to study the cosmos, astronomers are forced to contend with an ...
The term for this gruesome process is actually " spaghettification ," according to NASA, inspired by Stephen Hawking's book, ...