People in the Fayetteville area will be able to see and even photograph a cool astronomical event early Friday morning.

By capturing the same thing from very different perspectives, a NASA astronaut and an intrepid photographer create a whole ...

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.

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

A successful builder by day and traversing the sky by night, Isaac Roberts took the first clear photograph of Andromeda, the ...

A new class of supermassive black holes embedded in a thick gas shell could explain small red dots in images from the James ...

Perseverance has a drill to penetrate rocks and tubes for samples gathered from places suitable for hosting life billions of ...

Astronomers discovered a repeating, day-long gamma-ray burst, challenging theories of star deaths and black holes.

Massive stars in the Lobster Nebula carve dramatic shapes into cosmic dust while thousands of glittering young stars emerge ...

Pagan (STScI) This is a sparkling scene of star birth captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. What appears to be a ...

This dramatic scene captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope looks like a fantastical tableau from J. R. R. Tolkien's ...