Space Science The far side of the Moon may soon host the world's most sensitive telescope, shielded from earthly interference NASA's $2.6 billion lunar telescope aims to study the universe's dark ages By Skye Jacobs, June 2, 2025, 2:36 PM 7 comments
Science Space Euclid spacecraft captures 26 million galaxies in just one week "Just think of the discoveries that await us" By Skye Jacobs, March 20, 2025, 7:43 AM
Space The Web NASA's SPHEREx space telescope will map the entire celestial sky in 3D The two-year mission will map the sky four times By Shawn Knight, March 12, 2025, 9:33 AM
Science Space Astronomers capture first close-up of a dying star beyond our galaxy The massive star is dimming rapidly as it prepares to go supernova By Zo Ahmed, November 22, 2024, 11:18 AM
Space Euclid space telescope will produce the largest map of the universe ever ESA shares spellbinding teaser of its forthcoming cosmic atlas By Shawn Knight, October 17, 2024, 1:16 PM
Space Science Beyond light pollution: Starlink satellites are also interfering with radio signals Improved internet accessibility, but at what cost? By Zo Ahmed, September 19, 2024, 10:48 AM 21 comments
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