The cosmos has always fascinated us, with its vast expanses and mysteries that are yet to be fully understood. The ...

Looking Up is transcribed using a combination of AI speech recognition and human editors. It may contain errors. Please check the corresponding audio before quoting in print. Dean Regas: On the campus ...

An instrument on Webb called the Near-Infrared Spectrograph collects light from distant objects and then separates them into different wavelengths, or colors, like a prism. These colors, representing ...

"Gaia provides the first accurate view of what our section of the Milky Way would look like from above," Lewis McCallum, an astronomer at the University of St. Andrews in the United Kingdom and first ...

Technological limitations for manufacturing large, round telescopes has experts considering unconventional shapes to improve ...

Two more of NASA's space telescopes got another look at comet 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar interloper that captured the world's attention in July 2025.

NASA's $10 billion space telescope studied the third interstellar object to enter the solar system, measuring the chemical ...

Here is everything I saw with a smart telescope in a light-polluted city including galaxies, nebulas and star clusters.

If you want a good look at the night sky, it helps to head out of town and stay up late. That’s the idea behind The Eugene Astronomical Society’s “Dark Sky Parties,” which are held each summer at ...

TL;DR: Hestia turns your smartphone into a mini telescope for all your starry nights — on sale for $239.99 through September 7.

A new image shows the growing tail of a comet from another star system streaking across our solar system. The image of comet ...