A powerful new telescope has captured its first glimpse of the cosmos, and could transform our understanding of how stars, ...

October 21, 1897- the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay officially opened. The observatory housed the world’s largest ...

The wavelengths of radio light are so large that you can't capture a high-resolution image with a single dish. To capture an ...

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope have been used to study a cluster of stars, nicknamed “Nikhuli," ...

PN7, earth's second moon, is a quasi-moon — a celestial object that travels almost exactly in sync with Earth. Researchers at ...

The 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) facility, installed on the VISTA telescope at the European Southern ...

Comets Lemmon and SWAN are making their closest approach to the Earth tonight, Oct. 21. Here's how you might see them with ...

The giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87), in the constellation Virgo, possesses near its center a supermassive black hole ...

Astrophysicists are leading a project (TiDES) that will improve our understanding of the mysterious “dark energy” that ...

Installed on the UK-built VISTA telescope at the European Southern Observatory’s site in Chile, 4MOST is an exciting new ...

Carnegie Science astronomer Scott S. Sheppard discovered the asteroid on September 27 with the Dark Energy Camera on the ...

NASA has confirmed the discovery of 2025 PN7, a small quasi-moon that has been orbiting near Earth since the 1960s and may ...