A Tekapo couple who have spent the past 50 years helping to track asteroids that could pose a threat to Earth have been jointly awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit.

Astronomers have spotted something strange: a mysterious object that keeps emitting dual X-ray and radio wave pulses every 44 ...

The federal budget proposal is cutting funding for the embattled Thirty Meter Telescope planned atop Mauna Kea.

A team of researchers have discovered a binary system in which a pulsar orbited inside the outer layers of its companion star ...

Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is a spiral galaxy with a disk of stars spanning more than 100,000 light-years. Check out ...

At these stargazing stations, you will experience the Sunshine State's celestial scene like never before. Wear your coziest ...

Together with Willard S. Boyle, he invented an imaging device that is an essential part of nearly every telescope, ...

That trend is perfectly illustrated by the DWARF 3 smart telescope from DwarfLab. Not long after I reviewed their DWARF II ...

A NASA-funded plan to build a large radio telescope on the moon's far side is nearing final approval and could become a ...

This image captures a nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, home to the most massive stars ever seen. This image captures a region called LHA 120-N 11, also known as N11, one of the most active ...

A potential new dwarf planet has been discovered in the outer reaches of the solar system, and its existence poses the ...

Perched high up in the Chilean Mountains is the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, home to the world’s largest digital camera. The James Webb telescope is providing never before seen insights into our ...