"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Children love looking up at the stars and imagining distant galaxies, but with just their eyes, they can ...

Maybe you have had a casual interest in astronomy for years, looking up at the night sky every chance you get. Or maybe you’ve just recently become interested in the wonders hanging high above our ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This is the clearest image yet of the faint afterglow from the Big Bang, known as the cosmic ...

When I was in grade school I was fascinated by the world’s largest telescope: the 200-inch-diameter Hale Reflector on Palomar Mountain near San Diego. What a behemoth! At the time I enjoyed using a ...

You will soon have the opportunity to see interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS for yourself, as it is observed live by the Virtual ...

S targazers are in luck this Wednesday, November 26, as two major cosmic sights will be visible to the unaided eye. The ...

The past month has seen Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) brightening rapidly ahead of its close approach to the sun, leading to growing excitement that it could shine brightly enough to be seen by the naked ...

In our quest to image exoplanets, we have to contend with one major inconvenience: the blinding light from their host stars. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window ...

Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk galaxies from up to 11 billion years ago. Just like artifacts excavated ...

As space agencies track the comet's path, 3I/ATLAS is offering astronomers rare clues about what lies beyond our Solar System ...

The article discusses three main telescope types: refractors (best for bright objects, portable), reflectors (best for faint objects, larger apertures), and catadioptrics (compromise between aperture ...