NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help scientists better understand our Milky Way galaxy's less sparkly ...

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

The two telescopes operate synchronously: Izaña-2 fires laser pulses at a piece of space debris high overhead, and Izaña-1 ...

The "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2025 FA22 will fly close past Earth at more than 24,000 mph on Thursday (Sept. 18). The ...

Twice a month, on clear nights, the University of New Hampshire Observatory in Durham opens up to the public for a viewing ...

Three years into its mission, the James Webb Space Telescope has advanced the search for alien life more than any machine ...

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

The world's greatest space telescopes have all been round. Now, a new rectangular design could turbocharge our search for ...

S284p1 sits at the edge of the Milky Way about 15,000 light-years from Earth. As superheated gas falls onto the star, it gets redirected as narrow beams, confined by powerful magnetic fields. The jets ...

The clear views of Saturn are because it will be making its closest pass to us here on Earth for 2025, giving us the clearest and brightest view we’ll get all year. It will be ‘in opposition’ this ...

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