Astronomers and physicists have long used a laser-based sensor called an “optical frequency comb” to study the material makeup of the cosmos and to make timekeeping more accurate. But the COVID ...

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NASA approved the $19.5 million Landolt Space Mission to send an artificial star into Earth's orbit. It will be the first astronomical tool of its kind that could revolutionize the way we study space.

A 10,000-pound package was delivered on Feb. 16 to the W. M. Keck Observatory near the summit of Mauna Kea. Inside is a powerful new scientific instrument that will dramatically increase the cosmic ...

Shark researchers used a system for recognizing patterns in star field photographs to identify whale sharks, which have individual spot patterns. It’s called the whale shark. And, as the name implies, ...

Today’s astronomers don’t really look at stars or galaxies so much as images produced from data generated by light. If that same data were used to produce 3-D printouts, tactile displays or sound, ...

Two new and powerful research tools are helping astronomers gain key insights needed to transform our understanding of important processes across the breadth of astrophysics. The Atacama Large ...

To differentiate real photographs and videos from AI-generated copycats, researchers are turning toward an unexpected field: astronomy. According to findings shared at the Royal Astronomical Society’s ...

Created 300 years ago, Jaipur's Jantar Mantar is an outdoor complex filled with gargantuan astronomy tools designed to be used by the naked eye – and they're still accurate. It was a week after the ...

A machine learning method called “deep learning,” which has been widely used in face recognition and other image- and speech-recognition applications, has shown promise in helping astronomers analyze ...