Space Science NASA releases photo of a baby star that will grow up to be like our Sun It shows what our Sun may have looked like when it was forming By Matt Frusher, September 19, 2023, 7:37 AM
Science Electronics Astronomers are finalizing a 3.2 gigapixel camera that'll map the sky over a decade The camera will capture 20 terabytes of data every night for 10 years By Shawn Knight, October 26, 2022, 10:34 AM
Science Space Alien life confirmed? China says it could have detected evidence of extraterrestrial civilizations Don't get too excited/terrified just yet By Rob Thubron, June 15, 2022, 5:14 AM 29 comments
Science Space Striking image highlights the entirety of galaxy Messier 106 Messier 106 is a spiral galaxy more than 20 million light-years from Earth By Shawn Knight, March 22, 2021, 9:38 AM
Science Space The sixth monolithic mirror for the GMT has been cast and is now cooling The Giant Magellan Telescope will be the most powerful optical device ever engineered By Cal Jeffrey, March 13, 2021, 2:13 PM 19 comments
Science Space NASA's SPHEREx space telescope gets the green light to continue development Meanwhile, the James Webb Space Telescope still hasn't launched By Shawn Knight, January 6, 2021, 10:24 AM
Tech Culture Science Iconic Arecibo Observatory crumples after cable and structural failures The NSF is still trying to assess the damage and determine the safest way to clear the site By Cal Jeffrey, December 1, 2020, 6:14 PM 19 comments
Science Space The iconic Arecibo space telescope is being decommissioned as it nears collapse Repairs would be too dangerous By Rob Thubron, November 20, 2020, 5:17 AM 22 comments
Science Space High-definition solar telescope produces its first stunning images of the Sun The Sun looks as beautiful as you'd expect By Cohen Coberly, January 30, 2020, 7:01 AM 37 comments
Science Space The first-ever image of a black hole has been released "A one-way door out of our universe" By Rob Thubron, April 10, 2019, 9:16 AM 37 comments
Science Space The Square Kilometer Array telescope is ten times bigger than any other in existence Pushing petabits every second to supercomputers By Greg Synek, February 26, 2019, 9:50 AM
Science Tech Culture China completes work on 500-meter telescope designed to search for alien life By Rob Thubron, July 5, 2016, 1:30 PM 23 comments
Science Space NASA's Kepler space telescope discovers 1,284 new exoplanets, nine of which orbit in habitable zones By Shawn Knight, May 11, 2016, 7:30 AM