When you think of a telescope, you probably imagine it high up in space or on a mountaintop—but did you know scientists have ...

The Einstein ring, formed as light from a distant galaxy bends to glow around another object in the foreground, could help ...

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A neutrino telescope, therefore, is a giant exercise in statistics. Observe lots of atoms for a long time and sooner or later ...

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The Webb telescope is well-suited to identify asteroid 2024 YR4's size. Webb views a type of light we can't see with the ...

The team announced its “ultrahigh energy” neutrino on Wednesday, in a paper published in the journal Nature. The finding ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

To comply with Trump's executive order about DEI, a federally funded telescope project has altered the biography of its ...