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 ...

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

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

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 ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is being built to map the universe on a scale no previous observatory has attempted, ...

A new study with the incredibly exciting title of "Overdispersed Radio Source Counts and Excess Radio Dipole Detection" has ...

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

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

I pull over the spanking-new Datsun 280-ZX Tur­bo, grab my driver's license, and try to radiate a combination of innocence, ...

A team of astronomers from the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) has released new data from an ...

In 1925, Payne-Gaposchkin became the first person to earn a doctoral degree (PhD) in astronomy from Harvard University. Her doctoral thesis, ‘Stellar Atmospheres: A Contribution to the Observational ...