What could we choose as the seven most remarkable celestial objects visible either with our eyes or with a small telescope?

Though its mass will bend light in the same characteristic ways as any other black hole, astronomers generally need to see its effect on surrounding matter to identify candidate regions of the sky ...

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The young open cluster NGC 6709 soars through the sky tonight, visible in Aquila with binoculars or any telescope.

Astronomers have used NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to uncover black holes secretly devouring stars in ...

Castel Gandolfo is also home to one of the Holy See’s more unexpected institutions: the Vatican Observatory, which since its ...

The Vera Rubin telescope is poised to kick off an explosive era of discovery. "It's like old-fashioned astronomy: Find the ...

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

Saint Paul also sent a message honoring and blessing the three astronauts after they landed on the moon, calling them ...

As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...

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 ...

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.