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

We are working our way through some of the astronomical objects in the constellation Orion. Of all of them, my proudest ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

Astronomers previously thought all FRBs were generated by magnetars formed through the explosions of very young, massive stars. But new FRB is pinpointed to the outskirts of 11.3-billion-year-old ...

Astronomers compile a large sample of an unusual class of objects in an effort to connect the dots to the early universe.

For many years NASA and Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, were the only spacefaring entities in the world. The Chinese ...

Uncover the mysteries of galaxies with Rutgers University's new findings on Leo P, a small galaxy that started and stopped ...

Ever since NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was launched, it’s been revealing more about the universe than even most ...

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

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted one of the earliest and most distant supernovas, marking the death of a stellar ...

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