Ukrainian defense forces destroyed a giant radio telescope in Crimea, a powerful planetary transmitter once used to support ...

One of the world's largest radio telescopes has been destroyed by a Ukrainian drone to prevent Russian forces from using it ...

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

The Chandra X-ray telescope and other observatories are being used to study stars that could potentially harbor habitable ...

Astronomers have used observatories around the world, including the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO ...

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

Researchers in Germany have developed a ring laser that tracks Earth's axis movements without telescopes or satellites.

Ukraine has taken out one of the world's largest radio telescopes in occupied Crimea, turning a symbol of space-age ambition into wartime wreckage. The country's defence forces destroyed the ...

Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, ...

"Our approach gives astronomers an idea of how many spots a star might have, where they are located, and how bright or dark ...

Astronomers have discovered "dust-shrouded supermassive black holes" in the early universe, less than 1 billion years after ...

Astronomers are racing to study 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar comet whose strange behavior reveals new clues about how other ...