The satellite missions Hipparcos and Gaia by the European Space Agency will together bring a decrease of astrometric errors by a factor 10000, four orders of magnitude, more than was achieved during ...

Have scientists finally confirmed the existence of the first exomoon? This is what a study released on the preprint server arXiv, and accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics, hopes to ...

NASA has quietly made a major move to defend the planet after the mysterious interstellar object displayed more strange and unexplainable behavior. The supposed comet, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, has just been ...

On the surface, it is a call to action for the world's astronomers: a global 'training exercise' to get better at tracking a fuzzy, unpredictable comet. But online, a different, more terrifying theory ...

Abstract: The Allan variance (AVAR) was introduced 50 years ago as a statistical tool for assessing the frequency standards deviations. For the past decades, AVAR has increasingly been used in geodesy ...

Git isn’t hard to learn. Moreover, with a Git GUI such as Atlassian’s Sourcetree, and a SaaS code repository such as Bitbucket, mastery of the industry’s most powerful version control tools is within ...

Windows 11 is available for download worldwide. Microsoft has released it as a free upgrade, which means you do not need to pay to upgrade your computer to Windows 11. It is available for free ...

Want to boot your Raspberry Pi from USB instead of unreliable SD cards? If you've used a Raspberry Pi long enough, you've probably faced the… ...

Artist’s illustration. Gaia detected this candidate exoplanet, named Gaia-4b, with astrometry. Now, follow-up spectroscopy has confirmed its existence. It’s about twelve times more massive than ...

Background. Relative astrometry at or below the microarcsec level with a 1 m class space telescope has been repeatedly proposed as a tool for exo-planet detection and characterization, as well as for ...