India’s Aditya-L1 captures an unprecedented solar flare, IISc researchers unlock gene activation with mini proteins in yeast, ...

NASA’s two-for-one launch of its newest space telescope, SPHEREx — designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way — alongside a sun-focused mission called PUNCH is facing ...

ZTF J0112+5827 confirmed as a polar cataclysmic variable The system has an 80.9-minute orbital period and a 38.7 MG field It may become a source of detectable gravitational waves ...

The new polar, which received the designation ZTF J0112+5827, has an orbital period of approximately 81 minutes. The finding is detailed in a research paper published on the arXiv preprint server.

What exactly are Dobsonian telescopes? We explain their design and why they have such widespread popularity among astronomers. If you're new to astronomy and trying to work out which telescope to ...

Scary Barbie has been generating emissions for the past nearly four years, ever since it was discovered. On April 13, 2021, astronomers, using the automated Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) telescope ...

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are all bright enough to be visible to the naked eye, while Uranus and Neptune require binoculars or a telescope to spot. In January and February 2025 ...

NASA will soon launch a new telescope which it says will create the “most colourful” map of the cosmos ever made. The SPHEREx telescope is relatively small but will provide a humongous ...

Credit: NASA NASA is gearing up for an exciting launch with SPHEREx, a space telescope designed to uncover the history of the universe while searching for signs of life. Hitching a ride on the same ...

"SPHEREx is a testament to doing big science with a small telescope." Earth will soon gain a new robotic companion. NASA's latest space telescope, SPHEREx — short for Spectro-Photometer for the ...

Deanne Fisher receives funding from the Australian Research Council. NASA will soon launch a new telescope which it says will create the “most colourful” map of the cosmos ever made.