Astronomers uncover a cosmic mystery: an extra image in an Einstein Cross points to a massive dark matter halo.

A Kenosha astronomer has uncovered a piece of astronomy history — a telescope once thought to be lost forever.

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new "spider" millisecond pulsar, which received designation ...

As you might expect, the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo has a fascination with radio signals from space. While doing ...

A strange “Einstein Cross” with an extra, impossible fifth image has revealed the hidden presence of a massive dark matter ...

On a quiet August night in 1977, something extraordinary happened in the Ohio countryside that would captivate scientists and ...

The telescope I got was a $300 tabletop device, and while it's great for seeing the craters on the moon or even Saturn's faint rings with your own eyes, taking a photo using it is less than ideal.

For decades, the search for alien intelligence has revolved around the question: if someone out there is listening, how could ...

Why build a telescope? YOLO, as the kids say. Having decided that, one must decide what type of far-seer one will construct.

Students can now reach for the stars, literally, through the new astronomy major at the University of North Carolina at ...

Observatory goes online later this decade, it will create one of science's biggest data challenges. The SKA Observatory is a global radio telescope project built in the Southern Hemisphere. There, ...