A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of the Butterfly Nebula, a grand and graceful cosmic wonder.

Every week, Space.com delivers the latest discoveries, launches, and cosmic curiosities from across the universe. From ...

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

The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) has been awarded a prestigious Science Diplomacy Award at the closing ceremony of the 2025 Science Forum South Africa (SFSA), held from 24–28 November at ...

On Black Hole Friday, we spotlight the work of astrophysicist Chung-Pei Ma, whose research is transforming our understanding ...

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

Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early universe, and we may have ...

The discovery of strange, ultra-red objects—especially the extreme case known as The Cliff—has pushed astronomers to propose ...

Comet 3I Atlas is currently ~186 million miles from Earth, which is twice the distance from the Earth to the sun. It is ...

A newly proposed type of supermassive black hole surrounded by a dense gas shell may account for the small red dots seen in ...

Price history: This is the cheapest the Celestron Nexstar 6SE has been since March, when it was $919. Since then, it has been ...

Constellation Perseus culminates high upon the north-south meridian around 10 p.m. Dec. 25, with its brightest star Alpha ...