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

ESO's Extremely Large Telescope at Cerro Armazones in Chile's Atacama Desert is seen from directly above while its ...

This small, low-cost, smartphone-controlled smart telescope has a few surprises for photographers of all kinds ...

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 our universe.

Quasars represent some of the most luminous and energetic phenomena in the universe. These distant powerhouses are driven by ...

A planet circling at a sharp 90-degree angle to the orbits of its two host stars has now been confirmed. This discovery ...

At the Paranal Observatory in Chile, the UT4 telescope doesn’t just observe the stars—it actively creates artificial stars to ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found exciting new clues suggesting that a supermassive black hole may be hiding at the center of the nearby spiral galaxy Messier 83 (M83), also ...

First, is K2-18b a super-Earth with a large ocean ... At the very least, confirmation resides far in the future, though one future planned space telescope might garner more data.

More than 13 billion years after the Big Bang, astronomers have found the most ... only actively star-forming galaxies should be observed in the very early Universe. The James Webb space telescope now ...

The world's most famous telescope is celebrating in style with ... That has meant some big changes to Hubble's operations, particularly with the gyroscopes that help point it in the right direction.

and the Very Large Telescope (VLT), to further explore the nature of the gas and confirm the presence of a supermassive black hole in M83. These observations will help ascertain whether the newly ...