A new telescope technology—measuring just 6 millimeters (0.24 inches) in diameter—could improve how future space missions ...

I stuck to my "no telescope" rule for years, right up until a trip to New Brunswick's dark-sky corridor a few years ago, when ...

NASA’s next big planet hunter is designed to explore regions of the galaxy that almost no one has looked at or studied. The ...

Unfortunately, there's more bad news to report on the clear skies front. A new paper, available on the arXiv preprint server ...

NASA's plans to return astronauts to the moon through the Artemis program and ultimately send humans to Mars highlight just ...

A new study analyzed how NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory might be able to confidently spot biosignatures in the ...

Born in the 1890s and nearly killed off 20 years ago, the historic Yerkes Observatory along the shores of southeast Wisconsin ...

Explore 15 photos and facts about the Hubble Telescope, revealing its discoveries, missions, and breathtaking views of space.

Views of a massive galaxy cluster Abell 2256 have been captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton and ...

NASA has set August 30, 2026 as the launch date for its Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — pulling the schedule forward by ...

A half-century-old telescope headed for retirement that was given new life through state-of-the-art technology is being ...

Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have discovered the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever ...