On Wednesday, Schmidt Sciences - an organization funded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy Schmidt - ...
A new study shows the European Extremely Large Telescope will be able to directly image and study the atmospheres of some potentially habitable exoplanets. When you purchase through links on our site, ...
In research that has all the makings of a blockbuster movie — with interstellar chemistry, million-year timescales, and high-powered lasers — Princeton chemists are expanding our understanding of the ...
In a groundbreaking mission set to explore the very fabric of our universe, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is gearing up for its launch by May 2027. The telescope will offer a bold new ...
The flight of the telescope and lunar mission was postponed less than 30 minutes ahead of the scheduled liftoff because of poor weather. By Katrina Miller and Kenneth Chang JAXA, the Japanese space ...
Visual demonstration of the performance of the diffraction grating. The zeroth order transmission refers to light that goes straight through the grating without undergoing diffraction (which should be ...
Infrared image of the center of the Orion Nebula taken with the NIRCam instrument on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. The insets show expanded images of two faint proplyds from the Hubble Space ...