Thermal emission measurements from the exoplanet Trappist-1 b suggest two plausible yet contradictory scenarios ...

The Extremely Large Telescope will revolutionize our view of the cosmos when it sees first light in Chile in 2028. In fact, ...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky ...

The search for habitable planets has taken a leap forward with new space telescopes probing exoplanet atmospheres for life.

Florida Tech's Caldon Whyte is two years into a lengthy universe exploration to earn his Ph.D. in space sciences. After ...

Its detection demonstrated that even modest telescopes can contribute to the discovery of exoplanets, expanding the search for planets beyond our Solar System. One of seven planets orbiting a red ...

The star was discovered using the Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST), hence the rather strange name. The planets were found by carefully monitoring the brightness of ...

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Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. NASA’s newest space telescope has blasted off to map the entire sky like never before. Launched Tuesday ...

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track the evolution of the solar wind in three dimensions. transcript A SpaceX ...

The space agency spent 74 days observing TRAPPIST-1, which is far smaller and cooler than the sun, with the Kepler Space Telescope as part of its K2 mission. "Scientists and enthusiasts around the ...