A 40-meter-diameter radio telescope is put into use on Friday in Shigatse, Xizang autonomous region. Built by the Shanghai ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured captivating images of the Space Butterfly, a nebula thousands of light-years away. The intricacies of this discovery and its implications in astronomical ...

The hunt is on. A group of scientists has banded together to build the world’s first privately funded deep-space telescope, to hunt for asteroids that could pose a major threat to Earth. The private ...

Prototype dishes for Caltech’s DSA at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory, nestled between the Sierra Nevada and the White Mountains in California’s Mojave. Credit: Katie Jameson / Caltech / DSA ...

A massive new radio telescope array is coming to Nevada to probe some of the deepest reaches of the universe. The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) announced it would lead the Deep Synoptic ...

With the help of an extremely powerful telescope deep underground in Japan, astronomers may be able to catch a glimpse of ghost particles from long-dead stars. When you purchase through links on our ...

TL;DR: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured unprecedented near-infrared images of the Helix Nebula, revealing detailed structures of gas and dust as a dying star disintegrates. Located 650 ...

Astronomers may have witnessed one of the rarest and most dramatic cosmic events ever seen: a long-sought intermediate-mass ...

Below the waves of the Mediterranean, Europe's KM3NeT neutrino telescope is on a cosmic hunt. Towering strings of sensors stretch a kilometer down to the seafloor, arranged in a vast 3D grid. Its ...

A radio telescope project known as the Deep Synoptic Array is moving forward. It aims to detect radio waves emitted by stars, planets, galaxies and other celestial objects.

The unveiling today of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, a spectacular new set of images from the Hubble Space Telescope, brings mixed emotions to astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, ...

The most distant and rewarding sights in the night sky are also the faintest. Here’s what deep-space objects are, what optics you’ll need to see them and how to plan your observing. When you purchase ...