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

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

Video of the largest photomosaic ever assembled from Hubble Space Telescope observations. The camera pans along the Andromeda Galaxy's vast disk which is over 200,000 light-years across. (Credit: ...

Astronomers have captured the most detailed infrared images yet of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), using the Large ...

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

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

Capturing images of individual stars in distant galaxies has generally been considered impossible for decades. But NASA’s ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in observations..

European Southern Observatory Director General Xavier Barcons told Space.com that astronomers expect the project to brighten ...

Currently, there are only 11 known “supergiant” and nine “giant” Bathynomus species, with several awaiting formal description, according to the study. B. vaderi is only the second recorded ...