With 3I/ATLAS slated to make its Earth tour in two days, amateur photographers and astronomers alike are scrambling to catch ...

On a mountaintop in northern Chile, the world’s largest digital camera is preparing to power up. Its mission is simple yet ambitious — to photograph the entire night sky in extreme detail and unlock ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is often introduced in classrooms as a “bigger, better Hubble,” but the reality is far ...

The ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array) radio telescope, located in theChilean Andes, has long been a key ...

Decentralized physical infrastructure connects independently operated telescopes into a coordinated observing network ...

The Roman Space Telescope is one of NASA's next great observatories, designed to explore some of the biggest questions in modern astronomy. From probing the mysterious nature of dark energy to ...

Using Georgia State’s CHARA Array, an international team of scientists has uncovered unexpected complexity in how stars explode. Astronomers have obtained images of two stellar explosions, called ...

Animation of the findings by researchers who used time-delay cosmography to independently confirm that the universe’s current ...

It is the colours of a sunset that inspire Joseph Anderson, an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in the high Atacama desert, in northern Chile. “They start off very blue and ...

Choose a telescope easy for a child to set up and use. Select a durable telescope that can withstand rough handling. Consider a simple telescope; complex ones can be discouraging. Prioritize a ...

For most of us who are not astronomers, the image that comes to mind when describing a reflecting telescope is of a huge instrument in its own domed-roof building on a mountain top. But a ...

Astronomers photographed a baby planet, WISPIT 2b, during its formation process within a dusty ring around its star system.