A research team from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has uncovered the ...

Visual demonstration of the performance of the diffraction grating. The zeroth order transmission refers to light that goes straight through the grating without undergoing diffraction (which should be ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology expands one of the largest public-private partnerships in science, strengthening U.S. leadership in astronomy and engineeringPASADENA, Calif. and CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

University of Warwick astronomers have uncovered the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being ...

On Sept. 30, 1880, in a pioneering moment for astrophotography, amateur astronomer Henry Draper and his wife, Anna, captured the first image of the Orion Nebula. Though a medical doctor by trade, ...

MIT joins the consortium building the Giant Magellan Telescope, thanks to a donation by Phillip and Susan Ragon.

Astronomers from the University of Warwick have discovered a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment in the atmosphere of a ...

The next ORION program will take place at 7 pm Wednesday, May 21, in the City Room (Room A-111), McNally-Coffey building, Roane State Community College, Oak Ridge campus. The title of the program is ...

On September 20, to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the School of Physics and Astronomy at Sun ...

SPHEREx and JWST spectroscopy revealed a carbon dioxide-dominant coma ... TESS archival data showed that 3I/ATLAS was already active in May 2025, when it was 6 astronomical units from the Sun far ...