Finding life beyond our solar system goes beyond measuring an exoplanet's size, as rocky, Earth-sized worlds might not have the conditions for life as we know it. While exoplanets can be directly ...

On May 11, 2009, the space shuttle Atlantis launched on the fifth and final servicing mission for the Hubble Space Telescope.

An international team led by the Universities of Geneva (UNIGE) and Montreal published the first results today from the NIRPS spectrograph installed on the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

The calibration tests consisted of series of 10–100 acquisitions (typically with an exposure time of 10–40 s plus a read-out time for the charge-coupled-device (CCD) detector of 30 s) with LFC light ...

"One of the rules for building spacecraft is to have as few moving parts as possible," Andy Bunker, Oxford University astrophysicist, grins. "And that's why we have built something that has a quarter ...

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 news is awash about a 17 year old girl who won a $100,000 scholarship for her spectrograph, but nobody actually linked to information about the thing. After some digging around, I located [Mary]’s ...

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