The National Science Foundation’s Astronomy Senior Review report, released today, contains a variety of recommendations related to the National Optical Astronomy Observatory. “NOAO welcomes the ...
As the Oxford astrophysicist Chris Lintott wryly notes in “Accidental Astronomy,” our very existence depended on a celestial accident some 66 million years ago, when “an asteroid coincidentally ...
The American Astronomical Society, the largest professional organization for research astronomers in the United States has issued a statement on the recently released National Science Foundation ...
JWST observations of WASP-107 b reveal extended pre-transit and post-transit helium absorption, suggesting the planet has a giant escaping atmosphere. The results provide fresh insight into the planet ...