A network of mounts like these will power MOTHRA, the Massive Optical Telephoto Hyperspectral Robotic Array. In their quest to explore the universe, generations of astronomers have relied on a tried ...

The SKA Observatory (SKAO) is set to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) for a cloud-based high-performance computing cluster. As reported by The London Business Journal, the cluster will be set up by ...

New Mexico’s Plains of San Agustin are otherworldly: Silence, sand and sharp plants reign on the valley floor. Knobbly volcanic rock rises above. Pronghorns’ legs and jackrabbits’ ears break up the ...

The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is located at the Hat Creek Observatory in the Cascade Mountains of California, approximately 300 miles to the north of San Francisco and two dozen miles north of ...

For decades, scientists have observed the cosmos with radio antennas to visualize the dark, distant regions of the universe. This includes the gas and dust of the interstellar medium, planet-forming ...

Targeting star systems identified by Kepler Space Telescope (especially those in habitable-zone candidate planets). Surveying a region near the Milky Way’s Galactic Center (where stellar density is ...

CTAO Science Data Management Centre on the DESY campus in Zeuthen, Germany. Credit: DESY. Zeuthen, Germany – On 14 October 2024, the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO), along with hosting ...

Astronomers have dived into the turbulent and chaotic heart of the Milky Way, discovering hidden chemistry around our galaxy's supermassive black hole.

The Cherenkov Telescope Array just got a major boost for distributing its data, a development that will expedite scientific discovery using the observatory. Reading time 2 minutes The European ...

Researchers have developed a new method using the Allen Telescope Array to search for interplanetary radio communication in the TRAPPIST-1 star system. A new technique allows astronomers to home in on ...

That means if aliens were to exist, and they were located some 66 million light-years from Earth, they’d theoretically still ...