The catch: It will have to be on the moon ...

After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A ...

Kitt Peak National Observatory is the future home of a state-of-the-art instrument that will be used to detect and characterize other worlds. The new instrument, an extreme precision radial velocity ...

The Living Worlds Working Group proposes a revolutionary approach to finding life on distant planets. The paper, part of the design phase for NASA’s upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), ...

SpectrUM recently gained a $250,000 grant from NASA to place telescopes in the fall of this year in libraries across the state of Montana.

Red laser light is coupled into a spectrometer chip with an optical fiber from the left. The light travels along the chip until it is scattered out the the top in a waveguide section on the right.

Steve Vogt with the Automated Planet Finder Telescope at Lick Observatory, Mt. Hamilton CA. A $600,000 gift from the Gloria and Kenneth Levy Foundation will help fund an integral part of the Automated ...

Visual demonstration of the performance of the diffraction grating. The zeroth order transmission refers to light that goes straight through the grating without undergoing diffraction (which should be ...

Soft X‐ray spectroscopy plays a pivotal role in astrophysics as it reveals the physical conditions of hot plasmas and energetic phenomena in the universe. By focusing on the soft X‐ray band—typically ...

This simulation shows a top-down view of how different light patterns in red and green are generated when fed with input from a waveguide on the left. Spectrometers are technology for reading light ...