Extremely Large Telescope could sense hints of life at Proxima Centauri in just 10 hours, simulations suggest
The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky ...
Webb telescope just snapped direct image of worlds many light-years away
Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to directly capture images of the planets in the star system HR 8799, which ...
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World's largest digital camera to help new Vera Rubin Observatory make a 'time-lapse record of the universe' (video)
The car-sized Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Camera that was recently installed on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is ...
Less than 1% of the world’s biggest radio telescope is complete – but its first image reveals a sky dotted with ancient galaxies
The SKA-Low radio telescope in Western Australia is slowly coming online. It will probe the shape of the universe and study ...
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Astronomers Find Four New Exoplanets Orbiting a Neighboring Star, the ‘White Whale’ of Planet Seekers
More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...
Webb telescope images of exoplanets "stunned researchers," offer insight into carbon dioxide, NASA says
The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...
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Dark skies above world's best astronomy sites could be ruined by new energy project
A green energy plant expected to be built in Chile could increase night-time sky brightness at one of the world's most ...
European telescope studying the dark universe unveils new images of distant galaxies
A European space telescope launched to explore the dark universe has released a trove of new data on distant galaxies.
A world of diamonds? NASA James Webb Space Telescope discovers a gem-rich planet five times larger than Earth
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected 55 Cancri e, a super-Earth located 41 light-years away. The planet is five ...
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If the Webb telescope detects these molecules, they may point to life
"Less time with the telescope means it’s less expensive." The report created a lot of hubbub among habitable world experts ... technological constraints. The new paper from the UC Riverside ...
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Webb telescope just snapped direct image of worlds many light-years away
SEE ALSO: NASA dropped a new report. It's a wake-up call ... but smaller than Neptune — but there's no such world in our system. The Webb telescope captured clear "spectral fingerprints ...