An infrared microscope designed by a University of Iowa team led by Thomas Folland helped produce information that could help ...

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In the more than 60 years in which scientists have engaged in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), several ...

In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to go out and spot the many planets currently in our night sky. You’ll see four of ...

Scientists in Florence have built a device that allows them to study quantum and classical physics side by side. Using ...

TEGO revolutionizes gravitational wave detection with its tetrahedral spacecraft formation, improving sensitivity and ...

UC Riverside researchers have demonstrated a new, unsupervised machine learning approach to find new patterns in the auxiliary channel data of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.

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A suspected planet that appears well-suited to life has had its existence confirmed – and it’s very much in our neighborhood, ...

A proposed massive hydrogen-fuel production project in Chile has astronomers galvanized in concern and opposition. One ...

Moving at roughly 20,505 miles per hour along the distant world's equator, it’s the fastest known jet stream that wraps ...

Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of what the universe looked like in the moments before it rapidly changed ...