Do​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌ the clues for imaging earth-like planets stare at us from the faint glow of the far-off companions?

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The world's most expensive infrared spectrometer - the James Webb Space Telescope - is unearthing extraordinary exoplanet chemistry. James Mitchell Crow looks to the skies ...

The Astronomy & Astrophysics Department welcomes postdoctoral scientist Emiel Por, who invents technologies that mold the starlight captured by ground- and space-based telescopes to improve imaging of ...

With new technologies comes new discoveries. Or so Spider Man's Uncle Ben might have said if he was an astronomer. Or a ...

The next ORION program will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 19, in the City Room (Room A-111) of the McNally-Coffey Building at Roane State Community College's Oak Ridge campus. Joe Baldwin of ...

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Most distant celestial objects, such as galaxies and nebulae, generally do not exhibit perceived color through telescopes due to their low surface brightness, which is insufficient to activate the ...

Earth exoplanets orbiting M-dwarf stars, identifying specific candidates that may have retained detectable atmospheres.

Using the Hubble space telescope, astronomers have imaged "'Dracula’s Chivito" the largest site of planetary birth ever seen.

After 20 years of listening for signs of life elsewhere in the universe, The Planetary Society is now ready to watch the skies. On April 11, 2006 the Society will dedicate a brand new optical ...

Astronomers suspect there is at least one other star interacting with the material cast off by the central dying star in NGC 6072, creating the abnormal appearance of this planetary nebula. Credit: ...