Astronomers searching for rocky exoplanets orbiting distant stars are about to start benefiting from new high-precision optical equipment being used in tandem with the European Southern Observatory’s ...

A team of scientists and engineers led by Princeton researchers recently reported the successful operation of a new instrument for the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii that will allow astronomers to make ...

NASA scientists are eager to get to grips with a new toy for observing the heavens, the Echelon-Cross-Echelle Spectrograph (EXES). Mounted on a heavily-customized Boeing 747, the spectrograph has ...

Optical Surfaces Ltd is a leading provider of high precision optical components for terrestrial and spaceborne telescope spectrographs. Spectrographs are the ‘go to’ scientific instruments used to ...

Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope (LCOGT), a private, nonprofit scientific institution conducting time domain astrophysics and education, and a provider of global telescope resources, achieved ...

The international collaboration developing the Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) has marked a significant testing milestone by successfully taking spectra of targeted stars. The PFS will be mounted on ...

A new low-to-moderate resolution spectrograph has been designed and built for the Cassegrain focus of the Hale 5.08-meter telescope. To maximize efficiency, resolution, and wavelength coverage the ...

UC Santa Cruz has been awarded $350,000 in combined grant and donor funds for a major upgrade to the Kast Spectrograph at Lick Observatory. Astronomers throughout the UC system use the Kast ...

J. C. Wilson, M. F. Skrutskie, M. R. Colonno, A. T. Enos, J. D. Smith, C. P. Henderson, J. E. Gizis, D. G. Monet, J. R. Houck https://doi.org/10.1086/318619 • https ...

Astronomers have a new way to hunt for exoplanets today. The team behind the NEID Earth Twin Survey (NETS) project has published a paper detailing their first planetary discovery. The newly confirmed ...

A communications delay timed out the instrument’s flight software, and some planned observations will have to be rescheduled, NASA says. Reading time 2 minutes NASA says the Webb Space Telescope’s ...