The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world's largest solar telescope, can see the sun in unprecedented detail. Here is ...

Hubble is still going strong 35 years after it was launched into space. Celebrate its anniversary with some out-of-this-world images.

The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24, 1990 and overcame early setbacks to become one of the most ...

How can you fairly compare one telescope to another? It's all in the (angular) resolution. The entire point of introducing ...

A conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez Space is phantasmagorical. Astronomers using the powerful ...

These solar binoculars offer 20x magnification for observing sunspots and solar eclipses. Read our in-depth review.

Relive your favourite film memory with a road trip across California that begins in Los Angeles and ends in Mammoth Lakes ...

In preparation for the summer road trip season, historian Allen Pietrobon joins Smithsonian Associates on April 28 to discuss ...

The Masters venue has a reputation for old-fashioned stuffiness but when we look down the other end of the telescope at the ...

Two groups in Kolkata related to astronomy have created what they claim to be the largest handmade telescope in the city — a 14.5-inch f/5 Dobsonian that is low-cost, powerful, and easy to handle.

Mike Brown is convinced that beyond Neptune, at the far reaches of our solar system, there's an unseen giant planet. "This is the 5th largest planet in our solar system, lurking out there, waiting ...

MELANIE, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR LIVE REPORT AND. HAPPENING TODAY, A SACRAMENTO NINE-YEAR-OLD AND HER THIRD GRADE CLASS WILL SHOW UP TO THE STATE CAPITOL TO PUSH FOR NEW FOOD ALLERGY SAFETY ...