In this video narrated by Elizabeth Landau, hear how NASA’s SPHEREx mission will map the entire sky in over 100 infrared colors, combining a wide field of view with spectral imaging to explore the ...
YR4 has a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see how much of a risk the space rock poses.
The KM3NeT telescope comprises two detectors, ARCA and ORCA, utilizing seawater to capture Cherenkov light—a bluish glow produced when neutrinos interact with water molecules.
Where is all the water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons? The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will search the ...
Researchers believe they have rediscovered a mysterious star system first spotted in 2011. If true, the alien sun and its ...
Scientists have detected the highest-energy ghost particle neutrino ever, but did it come from a supermassive black hole ...
Physicists have detected the highest-energy 'ghost particle' ever felt on Earth, with nearly 100 times more energy than any ...
The moon reached its peak brightness at 8:53 a.m. EST (1353 GMT) on Feb. 12, but local moonrise and moonset times will depend ...
With a length of 428 megaparsecs, or around 1.39 billion light-years, the superstructure is the biggest ever spotted.
Albert Einstein himself thought that the eponymous Einstein ring would be impossible to observe, but the Euclid telescope has ...
The first Einstein ring was discovered in 1987, and since then, several more have been discovered. However, it remains ...
As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.