Construction has begun on a new telescope designed to map one of the universe’s ...

Scientists from the Telescope Array Collaboration have detected an ultrahigh-energy cosmic ray, a discovery that’s challenging our current understanding of exotic cosmic phenomena and their origins.

TRAPPIST-1 is an ultra-cool dwarf with seven Earth-size planets orbiting it. (Photo digital Illustration by NASA/NASA via Getty Images) Scientists have just completed an extensive search for signs of ...

MOTHRA observing at night. Each mount is equipped with a wide area web cam. Besides the mount in the foreground two others ...

The SETI Institute said this week that the Very Large Array, a National Science Foundation telescope in New Mexico, will join the hunt for radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations. These ...

The Telescope Array has detected the second-highest-energy cosmic ray ever observed, marking a significant milestone in astrophysics. This groundbreaking discovery follows the famed Oh-My-God particle ...

New Mexico’s Plains of San Agustin are otherworldly: Silence, sand and sharp plants reign on the valley floor. Knobbly volcanic rock rises above. Pronghorns’ legs and jackrabbits’ ears break up the ...

Targeting star systems identified by Kepler Space Telescope (especially those in habitable-zone candidate planets). Surveying a region near the Milky Way’s Galactic Center (where stellar density is ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. China just completed construction on what is now the world’s ...

China is planning to launch a telescope array that will orbit the moon to get more information about the lunar surface. The proposal made by the Chinese National Space Agency (CNSA) was to send a ...

On 15 December, the Large-Sized Telescope (LST) Collaboration announced through an Astronomer's Telegram (ATel) the detection of the source OP 313 at very high energies with the LST-1. Although OP 313 ...