Trapped in a gravitational push and pull between Jupiter and other Jovian moons, Io is constantly being stretched and ...

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The first world beyond our Solar System to be mapped in three dimensions a gas giant almost ten times more massive than ...

A team of scientists and engineers led by Princeton researchers recently reported the successful operation of a new instrument for the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii that will allow astronomers to make ...

The main function of a telescope spectrograph is to separate light into its component colours (or wavelengths) to reveal information about the chemical content, temperature and motion of distant ...

Researchers have developed a new technology that can shape the spectrum of light emitted from a laser frequency comb across ...

The Nearby Supernova Factory, an international collaboration of astronomers and astrophysicists, has announced that SNIFS, the Supernova Integral Field Spectrograph, achieved “first light” during the ...

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

Researchers have finished equipping the Subaru Telescope with a new special “compound eye,” culminating several years of effort. This new eye is an instrument featuring approximately 2,400 prisms ...

Jul. 27—A groundbreaking solar observation mission, launched from New Mexico, took less time than a typical lunch break this month. NASA on July 18 launched its Solar EruptioN Integral Field ...

Astronomers have a new way to hunt for exoplanets today. The team behind the NEID Earth Twin Survey (NETS) project has published a paper detailing their first planetary discovery. The newly confirmed ...