Measuring distances across the universe is much more challenging than measuring distances on Earth. Is a brighter star closer ...

The stunning panorama features over 600 overlapping Hubble images that have been painstaking stitched together. Spread across ...

Scientists have created the largest mosaic image of a galaxy 2.5 million lightyears away. The Andromeda Galaxy, our closest ...

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

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

The long-closed, 1920s-era observatory in Lake Angelus is important to astronomy buffs. But its private ownership has ...

From magnification to light-gathering, here’s how to make the decision between buying a telescope or a monocular for ...

Researchers have finished equipping the Subaru Telescope with a new special "compound eye," culminating several years of ...

An international team of astronomers has detected over 40 individual stars in a galaxy located 6.5 billion light-years away.

The galaxy Dragon Arc was observed along the line of sight to the galaxy cluster Abell 370, which acts as a cosmic magnifying glass.

the team of researchers turned to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and its high-resolution power to reveal 44 individual ...

Today it remains to be one of south east London’s most popular attractions and houses the UK’s largest refracting telescope, measuring at 28 inches. It also sits on the site of the Prime ...