A long-delayed project to build the largest telescope in the Northern Hemisphere atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii has been given new ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed the iconic Pillars of Creation and the view is spectacular! Travel 6,500 ...

A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces ...

This makes it appear correspondingly smaller through a telescope—infinitesimally smaller, in fact, appearing as only a point ...

There's always a touch of melancholy when a chapter that has absorbed years of work comes to an end. In the case of the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly growing ...

Skywatchers around the world are set for a rare celestial event as 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object to pass ...

The Red Spider Nebula showcases the beauty of a dying star. NASA’s Hubble shows the nebula in visible light whereas the Webb ...

"The key result is that while many alternatives look very similar to the 'standard' black hole at today's image quality, the ...

Long before rockets and satellites reached space, the Crab Nebula stood out as a steady beacon of high-energy light. At its ...

New observations show that asteroid 1998 KY26 is a mere 11 meters across and spinning twice as fast as previously thought.

What happens when a planet contains immense quantities of water but is far too hot for that water to remain liquid?