Another interesting consequence of relativity is that as time stretches out at high speeds, distances diminish. It’s hard to ...

When the National Science Foundation announced a competition to fund institutes in astronomy and AI in the summer of 2023, ...

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The Simons Observatory is one of the most ambitious cosmic observatories on Earth, dedicated to studying the cosmic microwave ...

Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to send back breathtaking images of the cosmos, to include planets in our solar system, exoplanets, and supernovae, using its powerful infrared ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's latest image shows eight spectacular examples of gravitational lensing, a phenomenon that ...

Joyce's nebula scene captures the expanding shell of the supernova remnant CTB 1, also known as both the Garlic Nebula and ...

NASA solar astronomer Mitzi Adams builds the enthusiasm of hundreds of young stargazers for searching the sky and pursuing careers in science and astronomy. Adams, who studies the sun’s turbulent ...

In the 1960s, celebrated radio astronomer Frank Drake proposed his eponymous equation, which attempted to wrangle with the probability of finding extraterrestrial life — at least, the kind that we ...

Space innovation and technology company the Satellite Applications Catapult, and leading space mission and data provider, Open Cosmos have signed an agreement to build and launch a key demonstration ...