Light is the fastest phenomenon in the universe, clocking in at just under 300,000 kilometers per second. The telescopes that observe that light, from radio waves to gamma rays, are built at rather ...
The John J. McCarthy Observatory - run by volunteers on the grounds of New Milford High School - has been watching the night sky for 25 years.
The Space Weather Follow On — Lagrange 1 executed its final engine burn Jan. 23 to reach its destination roughly 1.6 million ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NASA has tapped startup Katalyst to save a $500 million orbiting observatory from falling into Earth's atmosphere by launching a spacecraft meant to push it farther in space, a ...
Our planet is surrounded by a halo of ultraviolet light invisible to the naked eye, a celestial phenomenon that scientists have been trying to understand for over half a century. This enigmatic glow, ...
A bold new era in astronomy is on the horizon. By 2029, Schmidt Sciences, the philanthropic foundation founded by former ...
A plan to build a light-polluting green hydrogen plant near one of the world's most important astronomical observatories has ...
That community recently came together to observe Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) as it passed through the night sky. Near ...
In 1974, the Arecibo Observatory made history by beaming the most powerful radio message into deep space ever made. The famous Arecibo Message was designed by the AO 74's staff, led by Frank Drake, ...
The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 3:33 a.m EDT on Aug. 24, 2015. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of the event. Solar flares are ...