In the quiet darkness of his Mount Tabor backyard in Southeast Portland, Josh Romberg carefully points his 4-foot telescope at the North Star. Unlike amateur astronomers of decades past, he isn’t ...

A viral backyard-telescope photo claims to outshine NASA's $30 billion "close-up" view of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS — but ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—A Mississippi State University faculty member has made a celestial discovery in Starkville: the first ...

A gas giant the size of Jupiter, yet even heavier and denser, has captured the attention of astronomers across the world. This planet, now confirmed and named TOI-4465 b, lies roughly 400 light-years ...

A rare alignment between Earth and Saturn will make the gas giant’s rings appear so thin that they’ll be nearly invisible.

Professional astronomers don’t make discoveries by looking through an eyepiece like you might with a backyard telescope. Instead, they collect digital images in massive cameras attached to large ...

They didn’t use a space telescope, or a huge ground-based scope like the Keck or the Gemini, or even the sort of backyard telescope some planet hunters rely on to gather evidence of alien worlds.

Astronomers in the U.S. are tracking a rare comet—C/2025 K1 (ATLAS)—which is something quite special. While comets typically appear green or sometimes blue in sunlight. because of their different ...