Rochester Institute of Technology

Professor among first to use Webb Space Telescope

Rochester Institute of Technology astrophysicist Jeyhan Kartaltepe will be one of the first scientists to use NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope soon after it launches in spring 2019. The Webb ...
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Could this telescope find life on alien worlds?

The ExoLife Finder (ELF) looks like no telescope ever built. A spectacular crown of 15 five-meter mirrors perches atop a ...
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We Could Turn The Sun Into A Giant Telescope Within 30 Years, NASA Scientist Suggests

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Astronomers study exoplanet HATS-75 b using James Webb Telescope. Here's what they found

Astronomers noted that HATS-75 b thus joins the rare population of giant planets around M-dwarfs observed with JWST.
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Circle versus rectangle: Finding 'Earth 2.0' may be easier using a new telescope shape

The Earth supports the only known life in the universe, all of it depending heavily on the presence of liquid water to facilitate chemical reactions. While single-celled life has existed almost as ...
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NASA Sneaks Small Telescope into Orbit to Spy on Distant Worlds Using a New Approach

Back in 2021, American space agency NASA announced it is working on the "first space telescope built specifically to study, in detail, starlight filtered through exoplanet atmospheres." Now, five ...
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NASA finds starless, dark-matter astronomical object using Hubble Space Telescope — first confirmed detection of its kind in universe

A NASA team using the Hubble Space Telescope found an object in space never recorded before, nicknamed “Cloud-9.” Cloud-9 is a starless, gas-rich, dark-matter cloud considered a “relic” or remnant of ...