Let's start with the human eye. The human eye has an angular resolution of about 1 arcminute. That's pretty impressive. Take a circle surrounding you on the horizon, divide it into 360 little bits, ...

LIFE remains a mission concept and has not been adopted by any space agency. However, scientists at ETH Zurich have been examining what such a mission could reveal even in the absence of a positive ...

The dream of finding life on an alien Earth-like world is hampered by a number of technical challenges. Not the least of ...

The quasi-periodic eruptions of X-rays from a black hole 300 million light-years away are unlike any researchers have ever ...

Despite decades of searching for this signal, astronomers have yet to find it. The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, ...

A distant galaxy that lay quiet for decades has suddenly stirred, lighting up in dramatic bursts that have caught astronomers ...

Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.

Astronomers have reached deeper into the heart of a brilliant cosmic engine than ever before, using NASA’s Hubble Space ...

A team of scientists want to start a new mission to try to find life beyond Earth and the solar system. Astronomers from ETH ...

Astronomers are about to use a powerful new telescope to scan the entire southern sky. They'll take so many pictures, it will effectively create a movie to help astronomers spot anything that moves or ...

Caldwell 99 is a dark nebula — a thick cloud of space dust so dense that it blocks all visible light from the stars and objects lying behind it. The star V830 Orionis illuminates the surrounding cloud ...

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