Christmas is a great time to look for a telescope for your budding amateur astronomer. But there are some things to keep in ...

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

The journey of astronomical telescopes began in the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei crafted his first refracting ...

The most powerful telescope in history. The James Webb Space Telescope's "jewel-filled" photos are stunning. Heads of Oath ...

The instrument is the Prime Focus Spectrograph, and it is one of the flagship instruments in the next era of the Subaru ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

Six planets grace the sky this month in what’s called a planetary parade. Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are visible to the naked eye in January and for part of February.

Capturing images of individual stars in distant galaxies has generally been considered impossible for decades. But NASA’s ...

Artist Ashley Zelinskie's new VR work is called "Twin Quasar." Two roads diverge between a pair of quasars, and I'm sorry I can't travel both — actually, wait, I can travel both.

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and can be seen with the naked eye on a clear autumn night as “a faint ...

How powerful does a telescope have to be to see the rings of Saturn? A 25x telescope is powerful enough to see the rings of Saturn. If you want to see the separate structure detached on all sides from ...