China has achieved a major milestone in astronomical research with the launch of the Jiao Tong University Spectroscopic ...

At the Paranal Observatory, the UT4 telescope doesn't just stargaze—it actively creates its own stars using powerful lasers to battle atmospheric turbulence. Thanks to its advanced adaptive optics ...

Galaxies speckle the heavens like stars in a stunning new photo of the deep and distant universe.

NASA's SPHEREx space observatory has spent the last six weeks undergoing checkouts, calibrations, and other activities to ...

If you're tired of lugging your massive telescope to dark sky sites to observe the night sky, these small telescopes are much ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers uncovered a mysterious feature within the remnant, nicknamed the "Green ...

Telescopes are great tools for observing the heavens, or even surrounding landscapes if you have the right vantage point. You ...

The National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye telescope debuted a close-up of the sun captured by its new, ...

Bode's Galaxy has an apparent magnitude of +6.94, making it one of the brightest galaxies visible in the Northern Hemisphere.

During his time in microgravity, Pettit, an inveterate tinkerer, said he likes to spend his free time either doing ...