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 ...

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

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 ...

For a sense of scale, look near the base of the structure — the tiny crane trucks parked below emphasize just how much the telescope has already grown. The ELT is steadily becoming the world’s largest ...

FAST is the world’s largest and most sensitive single-dish radio telescope, while SYISR is the only phased-array ISR currently operational at low latitudes. According to a South China Morning ...

SETI combines cutting-edge radio astronomy, data science, and planetary research in a global effort to detect signs of ...