Big cats like panthers, leopards, and tigers are famous for their extraordinary night vision so sharp they can stalk prey in ...

The 4.4-meter-aperture telescope, led by Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) and situated at the Lenghu astronomical ...

In April, a team of astronomers announced that they might — just might — have found signs of life on a planet over 120 ...

First unveiled in 2017, LHS 1140 b is 41 light-years away, and may be humanity’s best chance of finding liquid water on a ...

The conference is funded by a grant from the Heising-Simons Foundation and is being coordinated by UMN Morris Associate Professor of Physics Sylke Boyd, who is the caretaker of the campus observatory.

China’s first large-scale general-purpose spectroscopic telescope – Telescope (JUST) project began infrastructure ...

Look West from Promthep Cape on a clear Phuket night (on the rare nights that might be possible!) and the Milky Way stretches ...

NASA’s quantum computer research helps us learn more about space. Quantum algorithms can solve hard problems and help with ...

Researchers were surprised to find giant gas planets orbiting quite near to their stars. Yet novelists had already imagined ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected clouds made of silicates, similar to sand here on Earth, as well as water, ...

Researchers have developed experimental contact lenses that use nanoparticles to convert the invisible wavelengths of ...

In the hunt for exoplanets, many seek out habitable worlds. There's comfort in discovering planets that remind us of ...