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China has built the world's fastest supercomputer using locally made microchips without using US technology.

• 20 июня 2016, 15:40

As the Hubble Space Telescope celebrates 25 years in space this week, NASA and its international partners are building an even more powerful tool.

• 22 апреля 2015, 14:53

Construction on the world's largest optical telescope began with a bang, as workers demolished a hilltop in Chile's Atacama desert.

• 20 июня 2014, 23:27

When stars explode, it's a messy business. But the massive blasts are also useful, seeding the universe with such key elements as calcium, iron and titanium.

• 21 февраля 2014, 10:12

All the pieces of the most powerful space telescope ever are ready for assembly at NASA.

• 05 февраля 2014, 18:23

Kazakhstan astronomers will take part in the Ultraviolet international project of the World Space Observatory.

• 08 октября 2013, 13:14

Japan's new solid-fuel rocket blasted off Saturday carrying a telescope for remote observation of planets in a launch coordinated from a laptop computer-based command centre.

• 15 сентября 2013, 12:07

Australia took a major step towards the ambitious Square Kilometre Array (SKA) astronomy project with the switching on Tuesday of a test telescope to explore the origins of the universe.

• 10 июля 2013, 13:25

European astronomers said on Friday they had devised a technique to detect water in the atmosphere of planets orbiting other stars.

• 05 июля 2013, 12:44

In a super-arid desert at an altitude of 5,000 meters, with almost no humidity or vegetation, the world's largest ground-based astronomy project opens for business Wednesday ready to probe the universe with unprecedented might.

• 13 марта 2013, 15:23

Astronomers using a powerful telescope in southern Chile have captured the first direct image of a protoplanet forming around another star, still embedded in thick gas and dust.

• 01 марта 2013, 10:21

Telescopes at a global astronomy research hub appear to have survived a devastating Australian bushfire that destroyed nearby homes and damaged several buildings on the site.

• 14 января 2013, 15:47

The Hubble Space Telescope is giving scientists a look at the oldest galaxies ever seen, dating back some 13.3 billion years -- providing a glimpse into how the cosmos must have looked right after the Big Bang.

• 14 декабря 2012, 13:15

Astronomers using a powerful Chile-based telescope on Wednesday released a rare image of a spiral shell of cosmic dust and gas surrounding a red giant star.

• 12 октября 2012, 10:43

Scientists using a high-powered telescope in Chile have discovered an ancient star that seems oddly impervious to aging.

• 06 сентября 2012, 17:10

The huge "Cherenkov" telescope, the size of two lawn tennis courts and the biggest of its kind, has started to capture cosmic rays from its base in Namibia.

• 29 июля 2012, 12:18

Kazakhstan will rent Russian telescope Spektr-UF to be launched in space in 2016.

• 15 июня 2012, 16:18