Extraordinary footage showed two NASA astronauts as they completed X-ray telescope repairs outside the International Space Station on Thursday.NASA livestreamed the spacewalk, which began at 8 am ET ...
Giant ground-based reflector telescopes do much of astronomy's heavy lifting, although the U.S.'s largest in Hawaii is not ...
A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...
Skywatchers can spot Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars in the night sky with the naked eye, but two other planets might need a telescope to be seen.
All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...
Six of our cosmic neighbors are expected to line up across the night sky tonight, in what has been dubbed a "planetary parade ...
The journey of astronomical telescopes began in the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei crafted his first refracting ...
The Subaru Telescope in Hawai‘i is adding a new instrument to its arsenal, one that will observe the cosmos through a compound eye. The compound eye will allow Subaru to observe about 2,400 ...
In January, stargazers will be able to see four bright planets, the close dance of Venus and Saturn, Mars at opposition, and ...
The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...