PhoSim simulates the atmosphere, including air turbulence, as well as distortions from the shape of the telescope’s mirrors and the electrical properties of the sensors. The photons are propagated ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) plans to establish self-sustaining human settlements on Mars by 2040, utilizing AI-driven ...

Euclid spots 26 million galaxies and more in latest observations. Credits: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image ...

A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers ...

Almost a thousand of the world’s top space scientists will visit Durham University next week (7 to 11 July) as we host the UK ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

Astronomers have revealed the first images from “the most ambitious astronomical survey to date” – a mission that will ...

But first, why is there so much astronomy data in the first place? This is primarily due to the rise of dedicated survey telescopes. A survey telescope maps out a region on the sky rather than just ...

Credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA; ESA/Gaia/DPAC; ESA/Planck Collaboration The release of the data marks a significant step for the Euclid mission, which launched in 2023.

“Euclid has already taken images of several times more sky than Hubble did in 25 years,” says Mike Walmsley, a machine learning researcher focused on astronomy, and Euclid Consortium scientist ...

On 19 March 2025, the European Space Agency's Euclid mission releases its first batch of survey data, including a preview of its deep fields. Here, hundreds of thousands of galaxies in different ...