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

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TRAPPIST-1 is an ultra-cool dwarf with seven Earth-size planets orbiting it. (Photo digital Illustration by NASA/NASA via Getty Images) Scientists have just completed an extensive search for signs of ...

To capture higher-definition and sharper images of cosmological objects, astronomers sometimes combine the data collected by ...

So scientists found a workaround. Instead of building one gigantic telescope, they placed smaller telescopes far apart and ...

At the start of the year, the European Commission established the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) as a European ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Astronomers have begun a first-of-its-kind search for signs ...

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 ...