The quest for optimal sites to carry out astronomical observations has taken scientists to the frigid Arctic. Eric Steinbring, who led a team…
One big driver in the search for exoplanets is whether life can exist elsewhere in the Universe. In fact, a…
This isn't a clone of our Solar System, but it's close enough. Scientists eagerly scrutinized a young star system called…
NASA's ongoing hunt for exoplanets has entered a new phase as NASA officially confirmed that the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite…
Early on the morning of Dec. 19, 2013, the pre-dawn sky above the coastal town of Kourou in French Guiana was briefly sliced by the…
In a test of its new high resolution capabilities, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is happily sharing some family…
If you've ever stood outside after twilight has passed, or a few hours before the sun rises at dawn, then…
Deep within the Taurus Dark Cloud complex, one of the closest star-forming regions to Earth has just revealed one of…
One doesn't take two cubesats and rub them together to make static electricity. Rather, you send them on a brief space voyage…
Between the years 2003 and 2011, the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher - better known as HARPS - made…