There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be ...

A new device uses quantum optics to filter out starlight in real time — bringing scientists closer to directly observing ...

The construction of the world’s largest visible- and infrared-light telescope is making significant strides in the remote ...

Chile is constructing the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the world's largest optical and near-infrared telescope, atop ...

The discovery of gravitational waves by the LIGO/VIRGO collaboration in 2015 confirmed a century-old prediction of Einstein ...

Astronomers searching for massive black holes shredding stars found one in an unusual place -- 2,600 light years from the core of a galaxy. The roque black hole may be from an earlier merger with ...

Multiple space agencies will send missions to the moon this decade and the next, with plans to establish infrastructure that ...

The best telescopes for kids that we recommend are not toys but usable instruments, based on how easy they are to use for ...

At around £419 / US$399 / AU$699, it’s the most affordable smart telescope yet, undercutting the similarly sized Dwarflab ...

The way that Hubble images are produced is similar to how the James Webb Space Telescope uses filters and combines these to create stunning pictures of otherwise invisible objects, a process which ...

This particular telescope is under construction in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, one of the darkest places on Earth ...

On a volcanic island under some of the darkest skies on Earth, I rediscovered the night sky and came home with a new view of ...