New evidence suggests that the famous interstellar traveler may be so old that its home system no longer exists.

Finding life beyond our solar system goes beyond measuring an exoplanet's size, as rocky, Earth-sized worlds might not have ...

A new generation instrument designed to probe the atmospheres of distant worlds is nearing operational readiness, marking a ...

The astronomy research instrument CRIRES+ is designed to study planets outside our solar system. It is now in operation at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO).

The new observing instrument VIRUS-W, built by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and the University Observatory Munich, Germany, saw “first light” November 10, 2010, on McDonald ...

The spectrograph will be commissioned on Devasthal Optical Telescope (DOT), Nainital, Uttarakhand, and will be used by astronomers in India and abroad.(AFP) Scientists have indigenously designed and ...

A journey across 440 light-years to the young star HD 135344B surrounded by a dust ring featuring the tell-tale fingerprint ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This object consists of the following ...

The news is awash about a 17 year old girl who won a $100,000 scholarship for her spectrograph, but nobody actually linked to information about the thing. After some digging around, I located [Mary]’s ...

A team of scientists and engineers led by Princeton researchers recently reported the successful operation of a new instrument for the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii that will allow astronomers to make ...

Gemini South, a powerful optical-infrared telescopes, has received a significant performance boost with the successful installation of a new high-resolution spectrograph called GHOST constructed by an ...