Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have created the most detailed map of the cosmic web ever.

The European Southern Observatory warns that rapidly growing satellite constellations could disrupt Earth's most powerful ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is named for a former director of the American space agency – Copyright European Southern Observatory/AFP/File HO It’s been ...

When the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) Observatory goes online later this decade, it will create one of science's biggest data challenges. The SKA Observatory is a global radio telescope project built ...

The biggest and best movie of the universe began production this week—at the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, rather ...

Massive galaxies? Dusty black holes? Black hole stars? Scientists have raised a lot of theories around what the crimson blobs ...

A Ball Aerospace engineer prepares the glass illumination ground support optics (background) beryllium flight spare Secondary Mirror Assembly (foreground) for cryogenic optical hexapod motion testing ...

Astronomy isn’t just about distant stars; it’s also about the human effort here on Earth that makes it possible to extend our vision out into the cosmos. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

If you've ever tried to take a photo of the moon and stars, you know that astrophotography is incredibly challenging. Although there are tips and tricks for taking astrophotos on your cell phone, to ...

The world's largest solar telescope has reached an important milestone. The data published now were obtained during the technical commissioning of the instrument. The world's largest solar telescope, ...

Later this year, a prototype telescope is slated to land on the moon. It could usher in a new era of lunar radio astronomy.

Astronomers are urging limits on satellite launches after simulations showed some observatories could become effectively ...