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Looking Up is transcribed using a combination of AI speech recognition and human editors. It may contain errors. Please check the corresponding audio before quoting in print. Dean Regas: On the campus ...

The next great space telescope will study distant galaxies and faraway planets from an orbital outpost about a million miles from Earth. But first it has to be put together, piece by piece, in a ...

Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We'll let other publications offer you ...

A new preprint paper has taken a look at what propulsion systems could deliver spacecraft to a particularly interesting area ...

answer one of their most burning questions about how the Sun works: how its outer atmosphere (corona) heats up to over one million degrees Celsius (1.8 million Fahrenheit), 100 times hotter than the ...

Scientists hope SPHEREx will provide data lending new insights into the origins of the universe and whether the ingredients for life exist anywhere else in our Milky Way galaxy. The telescope launched ...

The National Solar Observatory on Mt. Haleakala recorded this high-resolution image of a solar flare on the sun. According to the observatory, the image is about four Earth-diameters on each side.

At the end of 2021 humanity launched into a distant orbit the most technologically advanced (and expensive) space telescope ever made. Now parked at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2) in the ...

At this point, it's absolutely a contrarian position and not a rational one, but I think that could have been largely avoided if NSF and other government agencies had not spent the last 50 years ...