Giant ground-based reflector telescopes do much of astronomy's heavy lifting, although the U.S.'s largest in Hawaii is not ...
The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...
Located about 1,300 light-years from Earth, these young stars, also known as protostars, reside in a hotbed for star ...
The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world's largest visible- and infrared-light ...
The instrument is the Prime Focus Spectrograph, and it is one of the flagship instruments in the next era of the Subaru ...
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 ...
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday a deal to return hostages held in the Gaza Strip has been reached, after his office said earlier there were last minute ...
Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...
The space lumps were captured by Nasa's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Telescope, which teamed up for the stunning picture. Nasa said that the purple space lumps surrounding the planet are ...