Skywatchers can spot Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars in the night sky with the naked eye, but two other planets might need a telescope to be seen.

BYU’s Compliant Mechanisms Research lab recently completed a five-year project for the U.S. Air Force, developing designs for ...

Look up! Six planets grace the sky this month in what’s known as a "planetary parade," and most will be able to be seen with ...

Christmas is a great time to look for a telescope for your budding amateur astronomer. But there are some things to keep in ...

The journey of astronomical telescopes began in the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei crafted his first refracting ...

The NIAOT in Nanjing was placed on Washington's entity list in 2023, not long after shipping the finished spectrograph As US astronomers cheer the completion of the state-of-the-art project to ...

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...

The instrument is the Prime Focus Spectrograph, and it is one of the flagship instruments in the next era of the Subaru ...

ESO estimates the complex will leak as much light pollution as a city with a population of about 20,000. Parts of the ...

Nature has always been a powerful source of inspiration, with inventors diving into the world around them for new ideas. From ...

On this week's episode: ancient human ancestors didn't eat meat, carbon caught in a cosmic conveyer belt, robotic bees pollinating crops, and the incredibly rare marsupial mole gets a checkup.

Six planets grace the sky this month in what’s called a planetary parade. Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are visible to the ...