An exponential increase in the number of satellites placed in low-Earth orbit has brought advances in telecommunications ...

One of the reasons astronomers like to put telescopes in space is that the “seeing” is better. With no turbulent atmosphere in the way the stars shine steadily, rather than twinkling as they do when ...

The GMRT’s 30 antennas work together as a single telescope by combining data from all antennas. The question now is: can we ...

Planned megaconstellations would contaminate the view of the cosmos of four orbiting telescopes Many of the images taken by ...

The Celestron Origin Home Observatory is a smart telescope that takes all the work out of surveying the skies, particularly ...

Euclid uses a method called 'step-and-stare to scan the night sky, which allows it to combine a bunch of separate ...

A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces ...

Using the JWST, an international team featuring UNIGE scientists has detected enormous clouds of helium streaming away from ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...

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A small star named M82 X-2 breaks physical barriers, as NASA's NuSTAR confirms it shines 10 million times brighter than the ...