Portside

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of scifi. The discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence is more likely to emerge as a faint anomaly in astronomical data, followed by painstaking process of verification and peer review.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to transform astronomy. Its wide and fast survey will discover billions of dynamic objects while building up a deep map of the universe

Research led by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope collaboration maps the universe’s cosmic growth supporting Einstein's theory of general relativity.

A group including Native Hawaiians will now manage the mountain Maunakea, where Indigenous rights and astronomy have collided.