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Engineers with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) are conducting wind-tunnel tests for the astronomical organization’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), a massive new telescope scheduled to begin scanning the cosmos in […]

The mountains in Venus’ Aphrodite Terra region may prompt the strange weather patterns observed in the thick cloud layer near the top of the planet’s insufferable atmosphere, new research shows.

Methane, a potential sign of primitive life, has been found in meteorites from Mars, adding weight to the idea that life could live off methane on the Red Planet, researchers […]

Steel mill workers facing dangerous sparks could soon benefit from a heat-resistant spacesuit fabric that protects astronauts during spacewalks.

Gravitational waves, invisible ripples in the fabric of space and time, might be detected by looking for the brightening of stars, researchers say.

The history of the Milky Way has a new wrinkle. Scientists used radio telescopes like the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array — a vast array of receivers in Chile — used […]