There's no better time than now to embrace the majesty of the night sky to begin a lifelong journey with amateur astronomy that will have you exploring everything from twinkling stars and ...

A cosmological simulation study by researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has systematically revealed, for the first time, how the interaction ...

The James Webb Space Telescope was built with a flaw, and because it's a million miles away, we can't repair it, but we can correct it with software.

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

"It's the only launch vehicle that can meet the orbit, the schedule and the cost to achieve something unprecedented with ...

Scientists flew the XL-Calibur telescope on a high-altitude balloon to measure polarized X-rays from Cygnus X-1. These ...

A study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has revealed a previously unknown pathway plants use to detect ...

The universe doesn’t revolve around Kitt Peak, but the observatory southwest of Tucson is at the center of what could be the biggest breakthrough in the study of the cosmos in decades. Using an ...

Scientists have fixed NASA’s $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope from Earth. Using AI-powered software called AMIGO to recalibrate optics and electronics, they eliminated image blurring caused by ...

Robo-AO-2 is designed to correct the blur caused by Earth’s atmosphere, sharpening images of hundreds of objects each night ...