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Using a combination of telescopes, including the International Gemini Observatory, funded in part by the U.S. National ...

Cosmic dust does far more than float through space. It's the raw material from which stars, planets and possibly even life ...

At the 246th American Astronomical Society meeting in Alaska last month, scientists discussed how Trump's budget cuts could ...

These telescopes represent the cutting edge of astronomical discovery, probing the universe across the electromagnetic ...

An international team of astrophysicists have uncovered a possible origin of fast X-ray transients (FXTs) — mysterious, ...

The Cosmic Ray Division of the Yerevan Physics Institute (Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory) was established in 1943 by renowned physicists and brothers Abraham and Artem Alikhanyan.

The Chandra X-ray telescope and other observatories are being used to study stars that could potentially harbor habitable planets. Future observatories will use the data to narrow down the list ...

LEIDEN, Netherlands — For decades, astronomers have been hunting for roughly 40% of the universe’s ordinary matter that seemed to have vanished without a trace. Now, researchers using powerful X-ray ...

Discovery of the Distant X-ray Jet According to the study, Chandra's high-resolution X-ray imaging, combined with radio data, allowed the team to isolate the jet at such a great distance. At the ...

CLASS operates four small (five-foot-wide) telescopes on Cerro Toco, 17,000 feet up in the Atacama Desert, where the air holds little water vapor. Even there, radio chatter from satellites, radar, and ...

The map extends through roughly 98% of all cosmic time, or 13.5 billion of the universe's 13.8 billion years. That (and its mind-boggling quantity of galaxies) means Webb's map dwarfs Hubble's ...