Ed Stone, a Caltech physics professor and the ... which has twin eight-meter telescopes on Mauna Kea and in Chile. He says that without assurances that the master lease will be extended, the ...

Large, grand-design spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way are common in the nearby Universe. But they have proven hard to ...

The 18-year-old won $250,000 for training a machine learning model to analyze understudied data from NASA's retired NEOWISE ...

"If this initiative is focused on astronomical observation, it should be noted that, according to current regulations, private entities are not permitted to enter into international agreements on this ...

It's not the first time researchers have found a planet like the one in Star Wars, but this alien world has a particularly ...

In an article on Phys.org, Paz's mentor, Caltech astronomer Davy Kirkpatrick, explained the significance, stating that the telescope collected this treasure trove of data over a decade ...

High school senior Matteo Paz stunned the astronomy world by uncovering 1.5 million previously unknown cosmic objects using a ...

This galaxy was discovered as part of the PANORAMIC Survey — a wide-area imaging survey being conducted with the James Webb Space Telescope ... Faisst (Caltech/IPAC), Marijn Franx (Leiden ...

With the help of Caltech scientists, Matteo Paz refined his algorithm to recognize subtle patterns in infrared data. This collaboration led to the detection of 1.5 million potential objects, opening ...

TL;DR: Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope detected molecules dimethyl sulfide and dimethyl disulphide in exoplanet K2-18b’s atmosphere, which on Earth are produced only by life.

The U.S. aimed to restrict Beijing's access to resources in Chile and had pressured it to curtail space cooperation in a ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a British-US team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" indicating extraterrestrial ...