In A Nutshell Scientists have identified 6,594 solar twins, stars nearly identical to our Sun, in the largest model-driven catalog of its kind ever assembled. Each star was assigned an estimated age, ...

South Africa’s SAAO and the U.K.’s Hartree Centre launched the “Intelligent Observatory” program. The project will integrate AI and high-performance computing into telescope operations. The initiative ...

NASA is canceling the AXIS X-ray space telescope mission concept, saying it failed to meet key requirements. But the project leader thinks there's another reason.

Saul Hernandez, a New Mexico State University senior studying physics and linguistics with a minor in astronomy, has turned recycled materials into a backyard radio telescope capable of detecting the ...

Donald G. York was a longtime University of Chicago astronomer and astronomy professor who co-founded the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a wide-ranging mapping of the solar system that produced a ...

The United Kingdom’s researchers are an under-used asset “that we need to sweat” to boost economic growth, according to the head of the country’s largest funding agency. Speaking at a parliamentary ...

The Chilean energy company AES Andes has announced plans to cancel its massive INNA project, a green energy plant that was poised to ruin some of the planet’s darkest skies and observations at the ...

University of Chicago astronomy and astrophysics professor Donald G. York, who is credited with pioneering contributions to the field, died late last month. York died Friday, Dec. 26 at the age of 81.

In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an exceedingly rare discovery: a mysterious object passing through the solar ...