The urban astronomy movement #PopScope has set up telescopes on sidewalks that have brought 26,000 people closer to the night ...

Compound, or catadioptric, telescopes combine lenses and mirrors for a compact option, suitable for both planetary and ...

The world's most powerful telescopes, including the James Webb Space Telescope and FAST, are revolutionizing our ...

Given 3I/ATLAS' highly eccentric orbit, this will be its one and only visit to our solar system, as its trajectory does not loop back around the sun. That's why astronomers around the world are using ...

Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to become a star much like our own sun; this makes it a promising ...

Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, ...

A decade of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced the sharpest and most detailed images of the Andromeda galaxy. Zoom in and explore.

In just its first ten hours of activity, a single new observatory discovered 2,104 asteroids, or 10% of the entire ...

For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope has observed several tidal disruption events — when a black hole draws in ...

Astronomers have finally imaged the long theorized companion star of Betelgeuse, solving a mystery regarding its dimming that ...

"Astronomers may have just discovered the third interstellar object passing through the Solar System!" the agency's ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in ...