Cornell-led telescope project completion in sight
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The construction of the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) being developed by CCAT Observatory Inc., an international consortium of universities ...
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NASA’s Webb Telescope receives top space foundation award
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope team has been selected to receive the 2023 John L. “Jack” Swigert, Jr., Award for Space ...
Waseda University researchers measure boron flux in high-energy cosmic rays with the CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET)
Cosmic rays (CR) constitute high-energy particles that mainly originate outside our solar system. These primary CR interact with interstellar matter ...
James Webb Space Telescope identifies origins of icy building blocks of life
Frozen molecules were central to the origin of life on Earth. In addition to impacts of icy comets and asteroids, ...
Planetary defense and science will advance with new radar on green bank telescope
With a transmitter less powerful than a microwave oven, a team of scientists and engineers used the National Science Foundation's ...
NASA’s Webb Telescope reveals links between galaxies near and far
A new analysis of distant galaxies imaged by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows that they are extremely young and share some ...
James Webb telescope reveals Milky Way-like galaxies in young universe
New images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal for the first time galaxies with stellar bars — elongated ...
Webb Space Telescope reveals previously shrouded newborn stars
HOUSTON – (Dec. 16, 2022) – Rice University astronomer Megan Reiter and colleagues took a “deep dive” into one of ...
Science’s 2022 Breakthrough of the Year: NASA’s stellar new space telescope
After numerous setbacks, 20 years of development, a hefty $10 billion dollar price tag, and a perilous 1.5-million-kilometer journey into space, ...
Discovering rare red spiral galaxy population from early universe with the James Webb Space Telescope
Spiral galaxies represent one of the most spectacular features in our universe. Among them, spiral galaxies in the distant universe ...
UCI-led astronomers capitalize on early access to James Webb Space Telescope data
Irvine, Calif., Nov. 14, 2022 – First in line to receive data transmissions from the James Webb Space Telescope, a ...
NASA telescope, moon rocket named TIME Inventions of 2022
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Space Launch System (SLS) rocket were named 2022 TIME Inventions of the Year. NASA led ...
Tianma 65-m radio telescope helps to unveil mysteries of Orion Kleinmann–Low nebula
A research team from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has recently completed a deep ...
New way to make telescope mirrors could sharpen our view of the universe
WASHINGTON — Researchers have developed a new way to use femtosecond laser pulses to fabricate the high-precision ultrathin mirrors required ...
Birmingham telescope discovers two new temperate rocky worlds
An international research team including astronomers at the University of Birmingham, has just announced the discovery of two "super-Earth" planets ...
James Webb Space Telescope detects carbon dioxide in exoplanet atmosphere
Due to its role in regulating the climate, carbon dioxide is a central component of the Earth's atmosphere. Being able ...
$205 million investment accelerates construction of the Giant Magellan Telescope
PASADENA, CA — August 2, 2022 — The Giant Magellan Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever engineered using the world’s ...
Gaia space telescope rocks the science of asteroids
The European Gaia space mission has produced an unprecedented amount of new, improved, and detailed data for almost two billion ...
NASA telescope to help untangle galaxy growth, dark matter makeup
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will study wispy streams of stars that extend far beyond the apparent edges of ...
NASA’s Webb telescope: Engineered to endure micrometeoroid impacts
Micrometeoroid strikes are an unavoidable aspect of operating any spacecraft, which routinely sustain many impacts over the course of long ...