NASA scientists dream up a way to turn a Moon crater into a massive radio telescope. The concept relies on a large crater on the far side of the Moon, a pair of >>
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NASA celebrates Spitzer Space Telescope’s 16th birthday with 16 jaw-dropping images
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has proven to be one of the most powerful tools in the agency’s arsenal for over a decade and a half, giving us gorgeous views of distant objects using >>
We may be just days away from seeing a black hole for the first time ever
For how much astronomers know about black holes — it’s a lot, trust me — it’s a bit of a shock that mankind has never actually seen one. Everything science knows about black >>
This is the Kepler space telescope’s last image after nearly a decade of work
It’s now been a few months since the Kepler space telescope bit the dust, but the work it did will still have an impact for a long time to come. In a new >>
The exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope is now dead
If you’ve read anything about newly discovered exoplanets over the past decade there’s a really good chance the discovery was made by the Kepler space telescope. Originally launched back in early 2009, the >>
Now there’s something wrong with NASA’s Chandra spacecraft, too
It’s been something of a rough week for NASA. First, news broke that the legendary Hubble space telescope has been forced to enter a safe mode in order to diagnose an issue with >>
Canada’s new radio telescope just picked up a strange signal from deep space
Canada’s shiny new radio telescope is up and running, and it just heard something very, very odd coming from deep space. The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME for short) is located in >>
This ridiculously powerful telescope will let us peer into the ancient history of the universe
Learning the secrets of the universe demands that humanity study its most ancient star-building regions, and the HERA radio telescope allows scientists to do just that. The telescope, which began collecting data early last >>
