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Goodbye Mirrors: This Telescope Could Collect 100x More Light Than the James Webb

Astronomers have discovered more than 5,000 planets outside of the solar system to date. The grand question is whether any of these planets are...

A ‘Planet That Shouldn’t Exist’ Is Puzzling Astronomers

The search for planets outside our solar system—exoplanets—is one of the most rapidly growing fields in astronomy. Over the past few decades, more than...

Discovery of Vital Element on Saturn’s Moon Sparks Hope for Uncovering Alien Microorganisms

In recent years, the search for extraterrestrial life has been a hot topic in the scientific community. With the discovery of water on Mars...

Discovery of Vital Element on Saturn’s Moon Sparks Hope for Uncovering Extraterrestrial Microorganisms

In recent years, the search for extraterrestrial life has been a hot topic in the scientific community. With the discovery of water on Mars...

Astronomers found a likely volcano-covered terrestrial world outside the Solar System

May 17, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A large international team led by astronomers at the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets at Université de Montréal...

New Math Shows When Solar Systems Become Unstable | Quanta Magazine

IntroductionIn 2009, a pair of astronomers at the Paris Observatory announced a startling discovery. After building a detailed computational model of our solar system,...

China to hunt for Earth-like planets with formation-flying telescopes

HELSINKI — China aims to construct an array of telescopes in deep space to search for habitable planets orbiting other stars. The Miyin project...

Astronomers Just Directly Imaged a Massive Exoplanet. Here’s Why More Images Could Be Coming Soon

Finding life on other planets might well be the holy grail of astronomy, but the hunt for suitable host planets that can sustain life...

Best Astronomy Lessons & Activities

The number of astronomy lessons and activities is nearly as infinite as the cosmos themselves!Space may be the final frontier, but we’re certainly far...

China is developing a quantum communications satellite network

HELSINKI — Chinese research institutes are working to construct a quantum communications network using satellites in low and medium-to-high Earth orbits. Pan Jianwei, a...

How Many Exoplanets Can You Visit in Quanta’s New Math Game?

IntroductionIt’s the year 2111. Humanity has invented a warp drive that enables a spacecraft to hyperjump to distant solar systems and back to Earth....

To new worlds with quantitative spectroscopy

Feb 28, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Astronomers from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) and the Vatican Observatory (VO) teamed up to spectroscopically survey...

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