Researchers from Skoltech have devised a way to detect infrared radiation across a wide range without cooling the detector.

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Scientists discover the first confirmed atmosphere in habitable zone outside our solar system on LHS 1140b ...

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Tiny 3D-printed diving suits allow cockroaches to walk underwater for up to 3 hours with no ill effects, which could enable a cyborg insect swarm to explore disaster zones and perhaps even Mars ...

A Soviet astronomer in the 1960s proposed a scale to classify hypothetical alien civilizations. Here’s why the framework is ...

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Cropped image of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observation of comet 3I/ATLAS with its Near-Infrared Spectrograph ...

Findings mark the first direct identification of an atmospheric species for any rocky exoplanet ...

Astronomers found nearby exoplanet GJ 3378b may be more Earth-like than thought, strengthening its chances of supporting life ...