An LSU-led team would like to use a high-flying Antarctic balloon-borne infrared telescope to detect the chemical makeup of ...

Researchers have finished equipping the Subaru Telescope with a new special “compound eye,” culminating several years of effort. This new eye is an instrument featuring approximately 2,400 prisms ...

rhymes with fluid) is a high-precision radial-velocity spectrograph that is designed to measure the extremely minute wobble of nearby stars using ...

在宇宙探索日益深入的今天，新的技术突破常常引起全球科研界的关注。近日，昴星团望远镜（Subaru Telescope）宣布其超广视野多天体光谱仪（Prime Focus Spectrograph，简称PFS）成功完成全面调试，预计将在2025年2月正式投入使用，开启一段全新的天文观测旅程。作为这一杰出科研设备的先锋，PFS的出现标志着天文学领域即将迎来全新的探索时代。 先进技术的结晶：PFS的构造 ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...

First discovered in 2009, GJ 1214 b is described by the JWST team as being “sub-Neptune-sized” - smaller than the outermost ...

WASP-121b is like nothing in the solar system, raining liquid metal and being puffy like a marshmallow. The origins of these ...

Nearly one third of known exoplanets are enormous gas giants, similar to Jupiter or Saturn. But whereas our solar system ...

HWO will be the first space telescope built to find potentially habitable planets and analyze their atmospheres for signs of ...

New insights into the extreme conditions behind "disintegrating planets" reveals how they are consumed by the heat of their ...

So, its heavily inflated nature enables eager astronomers to look through the upper layers of its atmosphere. A team led by ...