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A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces ...
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, scheduled for launch between 2026 and 2027, is already surprising scientists with ...
Astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have uncovered the turbulent past of a distant red ...
This makes it appear correspondingly smaller through a telescope—infinitesimally smaller, in fact, appearing as only a point ...
The Russian invasion has shut down one of the world’s largest radio telescopes, a Soviet project that has been damaged during ...
The discovery of strange, ultra-red objects—especially the extreme case known as The Cliff—has pushed astronomers to propose ...
Astronomers spotted the largest flare ever released from a supermassive black hole as it snacked on a giant star.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is being built to map the universe on a scale no previous observatory has attempted, ...
A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.
"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...
A Falcon 9 launched 140 payloads on its latest rideshare mission Nov. 28, ranging from European government spacecraft to a ...