When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. The Allen Telescope Array in Northern California is dedicated to astronomical observations and the simultaneous search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). | Credit: Seth Shostak/SETI Institute The universe must either be teeming with life or host almost no life at… Read More »
The Space Telescope Science Institute has announced which astronomy proposals have been selected to be given time with the James Webb Space Telescope over the next two years. The organization on Thursday, February 29, outlined the 253 General Observer (GO) program that will use humanity’s most powerful and sensitive space telescope for a collective 5,500… Read More »
Astronomers have always known that detecting moons around planets outside the solar system would be no easy task; but a debate currently raging in planetary science circles demonstrates how difficult it will be to detect these so-called ecomoons. The story begins in 2018, when astronomers including David Kipping, an assistant professor of astronomy at Columbia… Read More »