Hubble and NASA space telescopes track ‘game-changing’ gamma-ray burst back to neutron star collision in ‘forbidden’ region of the universe
Astronomers have tracked a powerful blast of radiation called a gamma-ray burst (GRB) back to…
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2 powerful telescopes team up to find 70 ancient galaxies with surprising levels of metals
Using the James Webb Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array , astronomers have…
I visited the largest collection of public telescopes in the US in Oregon’s high desert, and the dark skies blew me away
SUNRIVER, Oregon — Perfectly perched amid an expansive plateau of sagebrush, Ponderosa pines, and juniper…
NASA Telescopes Capture Colliding Spiral Galaxies in Sparkling Detail
December 31, 20251 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmColliding Spiral Galaxies Captured in Sparkling…
Future Telescopes May Finally Tell Einstein’s Black Holes Apart
For more than a century, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has shaped our understanding…
Why Do We Launch Space Telescopes?
Why Do We Launch Space Telescopes?Telescopes in space give us a view we literally cannot…
New Telescopes Will Illuminate a Cosmic Dark Age
Across the past century science has reached an understanding of the cosmos that is as…
Can ‘failed stars’ have planets? James Webb Space Telescopes offers clues
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that planet-forming disks in the Orion…
‘Stellar Dreams’ project gifting 100 telescopes to 100 families (exclusive)
An illuminating new program has stargazers and science educators aglow with inspiration.That program, called Stellar…
The moon could be perfect for cutting-edge telescopes — but not if we don’t protect it
Space scientists are eager to protect the option of doing astronomy from the moon.There are…