Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...
Space advertising is not currently a problem, but the enterprise needs to be smothered before it has a chance to grow, ...
The journey of astronomical telescopes began in the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei crafted his first refracting ...
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Nearly one third of known exoplanets are enormous gas giants, similar to Jupiter or Saturn. But whereas our solar system ...
Highly energetic explosions in the sky are commonly attributed to gamma-ray bursts. We now understand that these bursts ...
The U.S. Postal Service has issued a new set of stamps celebrating the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful space ...
BYU’s Compliant Mechanisms Research lab recently completed a five-year project for the U.S. Air Force, developing designs for ...
On Sunday (Jan. 12), the Red Planet will make its close approach of Earth at 8:32 a.m. EST (13:32 GMT). This event, known as ...
Planets outside our solar system can be wild, weird places. Astronomers have discovered exoplanets shaped like a rugby ball, or where it rains gems, or which have one hemisphere covered in lava. And ...