A new telescope technology—measuring just 6 millimeters (0.24 inches) in diameter—could improve how future space missions ...

A new study analyzed how NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory might be able to confidently spot biosignatures in the ...

NASA's plans to return astronauts to the moon through the Artemis program and ultimately send humans to Mars highlight just ...

I stuck to my "no telescope" rule for years, right up until a trip to New Brunswick's dark-sky corridor a few years ago, when ...

Born in the 1890s and nearly killed off 20 years ago, the historic Yerkes Observatory along the shores of southeast Wisconsin ...

Unfortunately, there's more bad news to report on the clear skies front. A new paper, available on the arXiv preprint server ...

Explore 15 photos and facts about the Hubble Telescope, revealing its discoveries, missions, and breathtaking views of space.

A half-century-old telescope headed for retirement that was given new life through state-of-the-art technology is being ...

The Very Large Array (VLA), the iconic field of radio antennas featured in the film Contact (inspired by Carl Sagan’s novel), ...

Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have discovered the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever ...

Searing across the night sky, a meteor puts on a spectacular show above Arizona's Kitt Peak National Observatory.

From remote peaks to observatory sites, these North Carolina stargazing spots reveal brilliant night skies and cosmic views.