Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy. The halo, known as an ...
“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...
Using clever light-detecting techniques, ExTrA searches red dwarf stars for planets that might support life. By studying tiny ...
A rare ring of light surrounding a galaxy nearly 590 million light-years away from Earth has been discovered by a space ...
In eight years' time, an asteroid dozens of meters in size could hit the Earth. One of our best instruments is now to ...
Astronomers will use the Webb telescope to closely monitor the size and trajectory of an asteroid that has a slim chance of striking Earth in 2032.
Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a record-smashing galaxy wrapped in 9 rings of stars — along with ...
Telescopes don't come any smaller than the Dwarf 3, but does its portability come at the cost of image quality? Read the ...
The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope was going through preliminary tests in September 2023 when it captured ...
In a rare "time-critical" decision, the James Webb Space Telescope will study the true size of the "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2024 YR4 twice over the next few months. The asteroid has a roughly ...