Simulating Habitable Worlds Observatory's ability to characterize Earth-sized exoplanets

How will NASA's upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) mission differentiate Earth-sized exoplanets from other ...

New instrument at SOAR achieves first light with observations of remarkable binary star system

The SOAR Telescope, located on Cerro Pachón in Chile, has received a major upgrade with the installation of the SOAR ...
The DePauw

140 Years of Star Watching: Celebrating DePauw’s McKim Observatory

Aug. 26 marked the 140th anniversary of McKim Observatory’s First Light. An observatory’s “First Light” signifies when a ...
Arizona Daily Sun

Lowell Observatory leads study to measure binary star system

An astronomer at Lowell Observatory led a study that measured the properties of a binary star system for the first time. The study will be published in The Astrophysical Journal soon, according to an ...
Live Science

James Webb telescope's 'starlit mountaintop' could be the observatory's best image yet — Space photo of the week

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured infant stars carving peaks of dust and gas in the Pismis 24 star cluster.

Tail of comet that's visiting from another star is growing, new telescope image shows

A new image shows the growing tail of a comet from another star system streaking across our solar system. The image of comet 3I/ATLAS was captured on Aug. 27 using one of the telescopes at the ...