Space junk cloud discovered in key satellite orbit raises collision concerns

Researchers have identified dozens of previously undetected debris fragments in geostationary orbit, warning that the region ...
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Telescope Finds the Earliest Quasars Ever Discovered, They Shone With the Power of a Trillion Suns

European Space Agency's Euclid telescope picks up two quasars dating back to a time when the Universe was just 670 million ...

Why Nasa’s next alien-hunting super telescope will rely entirely on robots for fixes

Launching in the 2040s, the HWO telescope will search for Earth-like planets and feature swap-out instruments maintained by ...
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How to find alien technology

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. You might think this column is about UFOs and the Pentagon's ...

‘Robots will do the job’: NASA's next alien-hunting telescope won't need astronauts for repairs

NASA's proposed Habitable Worlds Observatory will be designed for robotic repairs instead of astronaut servicing. The ...

NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft discovered a “super-Jupiter” with a new method.

By looking through data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), researchers uncovered a planet through ...

NASA will have to find a way to service its new alien-hunting space telescope

NASA's new alien-hunting telescope, the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), will be serviceable out in space (and it will ...

'Our Next-Door Neighbor': Nearby 'Super Earth' Mass Downgrade Skyrockets Chances for Alien Life

Astronomers have sharply revised down the mass of nearby super Earth GJ 3378b, dramatically improving its prospects as a ...
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Telescope Uses Ripples in Space-Time to Detect a Huge Planet for the First Time

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) revealed a distant planet located 40,000 light-years away using microlensing for the first time.
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This physicist is hunting for the biggest black hole in the universe

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...

Was the 'Wow!’ signal a message from aliens?

The “Wow!” signal is one of our best pieces of evidence for aliens, but researchers are building a compelling case for a more ...

The Alien Signals We're Missing: Why Stellar Plasma Is 'Smearing' Extraterrestrial Broadside Transmissions

A study suggests that stellar plasma may distort alien signals, complicating SETI's search for extraterrestrial life by pushing signals below detection thresholds.