Two space startups have merged to create the next generation of telescopes
On a clear spring evening in Michigan, the stars aligned — just not in the way Upfront Ventures partner Nick Kim expected. He ...
Straight shot: Hubble investigates galaxy with nine rings
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a cosmic bullseye. The gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424 is rippling with nine ...
Aliens could spot humans on Earth by clocking 12 signs – and top of the list exposes us to E.T 12,000 lightyears away
ALIENS could discover humans on Earth by spotting one of 12 signs, scientists say. Topping the list is a clue that could be ...
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How the Rubin Observatory will help us understand dark matter and dark energy
Featuring the world’s largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture these mysterious phenomena in more ...
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Ghana’s space project under threat - Enchroachers grab more than 80% of land
The Ghana Radio Astronomy Observatory project situated at Kutunse in the Greater Accra Region, to enable scientists from around the world to view and study the universe from within the country, is ...
How A Balloon-Borne Antarctic Telescope Could Help Detect An Earth 2.0
An LSU-led team would like to use a high-flying Antarctic balloon-borne infrared telescope to detect the chemical makeup of ...
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This giant radio galaxy is shaking up our knowledge of astrophysics 🌀
A major astronomical discovery has just been made using the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa. A giant radio galaxy, named ...
How a twin Earth could detect Earth
A research team led by Dr. Sofia Sheikh of the SETI Institute, in collaboration with the Characterizing Atmospheric ...
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Davie Postdoctoral Fellowship in Artificial Intelligence for Astronomy
LOCATION The Davie Postdoctoral Fellowship is tenable at the SETI Institute Headquarters in Mountain View, California or the ...
This Mysterious Radio Burst Came From Nowhere and It’s Baffling Experts
Astronomers tracking mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs) stumbled upon an unexpected cosmic puzzle. A burst was detected from ...
How Webb Telescope’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Nearly Broke Cosmology—and Helped Fix It
Mysterious little red dots threatened to overhaul modern cosmology—but new research may have solved the celestial conundrum.
South African telescope discovers a giant galaxy that’s 32 times bigger than Earth’s
In some galaxies, large amounts of interstellar gas are spiralling around the super massive black hole and getting pulled in ...