The moon is near new phase this week, and clearer skies and cooler overnight temperatures means that this is also an optimum ...

In a significant leap forward in the quest for extraterrestrial life, NASA recently announced the detection of oxygen in the ...

Steve Vogt with the Automated Planet Finder Telescope at Lick Observatory, Mt. Hamilton CA. A $600,000 gift from the Gloria and Kenneth Levy Foundation will help fund an integral part of the Automated ...

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has completed the "major item of equipment" phase for the Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment-Night (LuSEE-Night), a ...

Researchers are designing new ways to make spectrometers that are ultra-small but still very powerful, to be used for anything from detecting disease to observing stars in distant galaxies.

Kitt Peak National Observatory is the future home of a state-of-the-art instrument that will be used to detect and characterize other worlds. The new instrument, an extreme precision radial velocity ...

To address critical research challenges in heavy-ion collisions at Fermi-energy regimes—specifically targeting the nuclear equation of state (nEoS), Femtoscopic interferometry of light nuclei, and ...

COSI is a NASA Small Explorer (SMEX) satellite mission scheduled for launch in 2027. The wide-field gamma-ray telescope is designed to survey the entire sky at 0.2-5 MeV. It will provide imaging, ...

The PRIMA space telescope would observe the cosmos in far-infrared light, while AXIS would be an orbiting X-ray detector. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The world's largest telescope captured a deep-space nebula — an interstellar cloud of gas and dust that can produce new stars — in stunning detail, providing the first close-up view to date of the ...

To shed new light on the sun’s magnetic field and how it impacts life on Earth, NASA is preparing major instrument components for launch this September on the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s ...

(Nanowerk News) Spectrometers are technology for reading light that date back to the era of famed 17th-century physicist Isaac Newton. They work by breaking down light waves into their different ...