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 ...

Using clever light-detecting techniques, ExTrA searches red dwarf stars for planets that might support life. By studying tiny ...

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The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has doubled in a matter of weeks, according to NASA ...

Humanity's most powerful eye on space will be closely examining asteroid 2024 YR4 in the coming weeks and months.

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

The researchers state that the discovery of this extremely high-energy neutrino is the first concrete proof that the universe produces neutrinos at these incredible energy levels.

Shifting air pockets in the atmosphere block and distort light, limiting the view from even the most powerful Earth-bound instruments. Orbital telescopes function as eyes in the sky that allow ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured photos of ... "We think every dense, dusty region that we see, and most of the ones we don’t see, look like this on the inside," he said.

Scientists will point the world’s most powerful telescope at the asteroid 2024 YR4, in the hope of understanding whether it might pose a threat to Earth. The space rock was found late last last ...