The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is slated to be the next Great Observatory for the world. Its main focus has been ...

Siddharth Patel, a 12-year-old who lives in London, Ontario (west of Toronto), spotted two possible asteroids in September as ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has measured for the first time the chemical composition and physical characteristics ...

Award-winning SF contemporary chamber group Ensemble for These Times has announced the guest pianists for its E4TT/RMF New ...

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a ...

Astronomers have recently unlocked a new frontier in exoplanet exploration, generating the first 3D map of a distant world.

What you're looking at here is the aftermath of a sun-like star that eventually reached the end of its life and poofed out ...

Detecting exoplanets at all is difficult—they typically emit much less than 1% of a host star's brightness. Eclipse mapping requires measuring small fractions of that total as a planet circles behind ...

A potentially habitable planet, eerily similar to Earth, has been discovered after two decades of painstaking astronomical ...

The National Research Foundation (NRF) is pleased to announce the 20th anniversary of the inauguration of the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT). A prestigious celebration will take place on 10 ...

Astronomers discovered GJ 251 c, a rocky planet four times Earth’s mass orbiting in its star’s habitable zone.

Efforts to discover extraterrestrial life are increasingly engaging scientists. However, a recent study presents a rather pessimistic view about such a discovery. According to researchers, ...