China has put forth a proposal to construct a large radio telescope array on the far side of the moon. For the last few years ...

A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on amateur telescopes. Engineers and astronomers at the University of Utah have ...

For centuries, telescopes have relied oncurved glass lenses to bend light and bring the cosmos into focus. While effective, these traditional lenses come with a major drawback—the more powerful they ...

Earth, HD 20794 d, in the habitable zone around a Sun-like star 20 light-years away. With a mass six times that of Eart ...

From 2035, the Einstein Telescope will be able to study gravitational waves with unprecedented accuracy. For the telescope, ...

New research from University of Utah engineering professor Rajesh Menon and colleagues at the Price College of Engineering offers a promising solution applicable to telescopes and astrophotography ...

We already do this for some transiting exoplanets now with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). And proposed future telescopes such as NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory are meant to scan the ...

Say goodbye to money for future telescopes, for unmanned trips to other planets and even for processing the data that we are currently receiving from NASA telescopes and probes. It is ironic that ...

Prinoth’s excitement is well placed. Future telescopes—such as ESO’s forthcoming Extremely Large Telescope (ELT)—will allow researchers to conduct similar atmospheric analyses of smaller ...

While James Webb is currently the best tool for this search, future telescopes, like the proposed European LIFE mission, could make detecting these gases even easier. If LIFE launches in the 2040s ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...