Astronomy isn’t just about distant stars; it’s also about the human effort here on Earth that makes it possible to extend our ...

Just 40 light-years from Earth, a red dwarf star named TRAPPIST-1 intrigues astronomers with its exceptional planetary system ...

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

UT-Austin just took a big step in its process of building one of the largest telescopes in the world as the Giant Magellan Telescope is moving into its final design phase to get federal funding ...

A Ball Aerospace engineer prepares the glass illumination ground support optics (background) beryllium flight spare Secondary Mirror Assembly (foreground) for cryogenic optical hexapod motion testing ...

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS nucleus size remains one of the biggest mysteries in astronomy. Scientists are analyzing ...

In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, Rowan Hooper explores the advances ...

Telescopes on the National Mall tonight will give people a chance to see the stars and experience the largest astronomy outreach event in the United States.

Astronomers are pulling back the curtain on two of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how planets are born and how invisible ...

Newly released images of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy M87 show that the plasma that swirls around ...