Astronomy
From car engines to exoplanets
Chemical models developed to help limit the emission of pollutants by car engines are being used ...
Is there life adrift in the clouds of Venus?
MADISON, Wis. — In the search for extraterrestrial life, scientists have turned over all sorts of ...
Solving the Dark Energy Mystery: A New Assignment for a ...
Forty-five years ago this month, a telescope tucked inside a 14-story, 500-ton dome atop a mile-high peak ...
Artificially lit surfaces on Earth increase more than 2% per ...
Concerns about light pollution arose in the astronomical field as a consequence of its adverse effects on ...
CARMENES instrument finds its first exoplanet
The CARMENES project, promoted by a consortium of eleven German and Spanish institutions and led by the ...
Why refracting telescopes are popular
A good refractor is to be preferred when it comes to high-quality celestial observation, such as that ...
Haumea, the most peculiar of Pluto companions, has a ring ...
At the ends of the Solar System, beyond the orbit of Neptune, there is a belt of ...
A light in the dark: NASA sounding rocket probes the ...
Though stars and galaxies fill our night sky, most of the matter in the universe resides in ...
CARMENES instrument demonstrates its ability to find Earth-like planets
CARMENES instrument, developed by a consortium of eleven German and Spanish institutions and coordinated by the Institute ...
The material that obscures supermassive black holes
Black holes appear to play a fundamental role in how galaxies evolve throughout their life during a ...
