Telescope
Astronomers Find the Most Distant Known Object in the Solar System
Nicknamed “Farout,” the world is 120 times farther from the Sun than Earth.
What Baby Stars and Meteorites Can Tell Us About Our Solar System’s Past
Rachel Smith studies the birth of stars to better understand the origins of life on Earth, and perhaps elsewhere in the universe.
The Telescopes of the Future Might Assemble Themselves in Space
The scientist behind the Modular Active Self-Assembling Space Telescope Swarm wants to make space telescopes less risky and more productive.
Scientists found another Earth-like planet, and even more are coming
“You’re right now standing on the threshold of the next sonic boom in exoplanet discoveries.”
Inside China's Supermassive Alien-Searching Radio Dish
The 500 meter wide FAST dish has made a poor rural province the center of China's search for extraterrestrial life. But how likely is it the telescope will indeed start intercepting alien messages?
This Guy Took Pictures of Jupiter with a Game Boy Camera and an Old Telescope
'2bit Astrophotography.'
New Tool Allows Astronomers to Directly Observe Exoplanets
It’s kind of like observing “a speck of tinsel floating in front of a spotlight hundreds of miles away.”
NASA's New Tool 'Scout' Spotted an Asteroid That Will Miss Earth by 300K Miles
A computer program being tested by NASA has identified an asteroid headed towards Earth, but estimates it will miss the planet by a couple hundred thousand miles.
This Hubble Image Is a Premonition of the Sun’s Violent Death
This Hubble Image Is a Premonition of the Sun’s Violent Death
Watch This White Dwarf Mercilessly Wail On Its Red Dwarf Friend
“We realised we were seeing something extraordinary the more we progressed with our observations.”
World’s Most Powerful Radio Telescope Discovers 1300 New Galaxies in Trial Run
Operating at only one quarter of its full capacity, the MeerKAT telescope array found 1300 galaxies in a region of the universe where only 70 were known to exist previously.
If We Want to Find Aliens, We Need to Save the Arecibo Telescope
Arecibo Observatory, the world's largest radio telescope and an alien hunter's best bet at finding extraterrestrial life, could lose its funding and shut down.