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 ...

Telescopes are not inherently better at looking into space than binoculars. Yes, astronomers’ telescopes, with their gigantic lenses and sturdy support systems, are more powerful than binoculars ...

Using the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Gemini North telescope in Hawaii, astronomers have captured the first detailed ...

That's a telescope and the astronomer at Washburn, Jim Lattice, well, he turns to me, and he said, well, I'll look through it from the studios of Cincinnati public radio.

At least until Zephraim Cochrane invents the warp drive, our best shot is looking into the deep sky through telescopes. Here's how they work—and how it's not always just about optics. What Is a ...

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.

Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and predict many things about the universe’s shape, rate of change, and ...

Through this force, quarks ... which are what astronomers look for. But such collisions are so rare that enormous volumes of target material are needed to create a neutrino telescope. What’s ...

It's possible that Mars' moons were originally asteroids that were captured by the planet's gravitational pull. There's also ...

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A newly discovered object speeding through our solar system is sparking excitement among astronomers because it’s not from around here. Believed to be a comet ...