Observatory goes online later this decade, it will create one of science’s biggest data challenges. The SKA Observatory is a ...

NASA's James Webb Telescope recently got a front-row seat to some incredible stellar fireworks on the outskirts of the Milky Way galaxy. The eruption of gases from a stellar jet in a ...

Staff at the European Southern Observatory have a system to clean the La Silla Observatory's delicate mirrors without breaking them. Big telescopes feature some of the finest and most precise mirrors ...

Over the past few years or so the most talked about kind of telescope was the one that is meant to operate in space. An understandable development, given the several such instruments that have been ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has glimpsed the most distant single star it's ever observed, glimmering 28 billion light-years away. And the star could be between 50 to 500 times more massive than our sun ...

"We were amazed by the fact that these observatories can detect about 100 black holes just 250 million years after the Big ...

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Mike Brown is convinced that beyond Neptune, at the far reaches of our solar system, there's an unseen giant planet. "This is the 5th largest planet in our solar system, lurking out there, waiting to ...

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