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

A rare breed of star recently discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope spins faster by feeding on its stellar siblings.

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

The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world's largest visible- and infrared-light ...

Located about 1,300 light-years from Earth, these young stars, also known as protostars, reside in a hotbed for star ...

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

Giant ground-based reflector telescopes do much of astronomy's heavy lifting, although the U.S.'s largest in Hawaii is not ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

NASA's Roman Space Telescope is preparing for launch in 2027, with a mission to study distant galaxies and explore dark ...

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

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

Astronomers are raising concerns about the impact of light pollution from a renewable energy project on the world’s most ...