The telescope, which they hope to launch into low Earth orbit in 2019, would be about the size of a dishwasher; its half-meter main mirror could fit on a coffee table. Because their hardware is small ...

In life exploration to find out whether there is life on a distant planet, whether the planet has an atmosphere and its atmospheric composition are important clues, but it is very difficult to observe ...

The Harvard emeritus professor recently added a new mystery to the list: Is China quietly building the world’s biggest telescope? He would like to know, because he leads a rival telescope project in ...

SHANGHAI, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists are working for an ambitious goal: building a powerful telescope at 3,500 meters underwater to detect neutrinos, which can help uncover long-standing ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. NASA engineers are studying the feasibility of building a massive, kilometre-wide radio telescope on ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first detailed images of asteroid 2024 YR4, providing new insights into its size, surface material, and heat patterns. Initially considered a ...