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I heard that besides the Arecibo being a world class radio telescope for decades and in most of my lifelong interest in space as I was born in 1960 and have been interested in astronomy space exploration since I learned how to read at 4 or 5 years old that Arecibo also had very good relations...

As I'm sure some of you know, there's a debate in the astronomical community about the nature (extent and composition) of the atmospheres of planets orbiting red dwarf stars. This is especially true of red dwarf star planets in the habitable zone of their parent stars where these planets...

:) Hi Space.com and other astronomy fans, As I'm sure some of you know that one of the most interested candidate but until recently definitely not confirmed Kepler planet was KOI 4878.01 or KOI 4878 b. However, a couple days ago, around the beginning of October 2022 an update on Extrasolar...

If anyone is having trouble understanding the above question I will try to give some clarification. I have often heard astronomy teachers saying, rightly, that we can't see the center of the galaxy from Earth or our solar system because the intervening dust and perhaps gas absorbs or blocks out...

Since the James Webb space telescope has emphasis on infrared both near and mid infrared observing and most of the obstruction of our view of the center or even other side of our Milky Way galaxy if blocked by intervening gas and dust to visible light but not as blocked to infrared radiation how...

If evidence can be found of an interstellar comet or other interstellar object over Earth in just the last 10 years, how likely is it that there are that researchers from Earth through robotic probes or eventually astronaut geologists like Jack Schmitt Apollo 17 astronaut could find evidence of...

The article reminds us that the last American or any human mission to the Moon was in December 1972 almost 50 years ago. I didn't want to wait this long for the US and the rest of the West especially to have a rocket built that is capable of bringing astronauts back to the surface of the Moon...

OK, thank you. But is it because we can't see at the extreme part of the visible from Earth to see these surface features on Venus that were seen from closer range by the Parker Solar Probe or is it that we simply don't yet have large enough telescopes on Earth in these wavelengths that we...

Could ground based telescopes see Venus in the red part of the visible spectrum or could Hubble and get good images with some detail?

How possible is it that large ground based telescopes on the surface of Earth or space telescopes in Earth orbit including perhaps Hubble could observe Venus and see these or similiar surface of low atmosphere features on Venus in the far red end of the visible spectrum on a more regular basis?

Hi Joe, Why hasn't NASA or some other space agency like ESA or the Chinese Space Agency made another version of the Labelled Release Experiment on the Viking landers that seemed to have some positive indications in the search for microbial life on Mars. I heard Gilbert Levin who developed this...

Are these substantial and partly lasting reduction in red blood cells due to human space flight in general or more specifically to human space flight in microgravity (like muscle or bone loss etc.)?

I heard that the former NASA Spitzer and European Space Agency (ESA) Herschel space telescopes were colder and could see further into the infrared than the James Webb space telescope. However, they were both substantially smaller telescopes than James Webb. What are the possibilities that...

Thank you. This morning, I checked the Extrasolar Encyclopedia and their update of Kepler 1708 b and its moon Kepler 1708 b i so I'm all caught up with the information now in this regard.

I looked at the up-to-date version of The Extrasolar Encyclopedia main database at http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/ and could not find any entry for Kepler 1708 b. Has that planet indeed been confirmed and if so why isn't the parent planet of this second proposed exomoon listed in The Extrasolar...