What if the universe’s most intriguing worlds are those we can barely see?” OASIS, the Observing Accelerators with SCExAO Imaging Survey, aims to pair the accuracy of space-based astrometry ...

Researchers for half a century have tried — and failed — to use the motion of stars moving across the sky to discover planets that lie beyond the solar system. Now a team has finally used the method, ...

Background. Relative astrometry at or below the microarcsec level with a 1 m class space telescope has been repeatedly proposed as a tool for exo-planet detection and characterization, as well as for ...

A new search engine will soon turn your night sky images into powerful research data and identify the twinkling objects in them with just the click of a button. The Astrometry.net database will hunt ...

Chinese astronomers have proposed a space telescope survey program to search for habitable exoplanets some 32 light-years from Earth. This would be the world's first space exploration mission ...

The century-old brass telescope was broken in places and long past its useful life — but it captured Lennart Lindegren's heart. Forty years ago, when Lindegren was a graduate student at the Lund ...