January is the best time of the year to see the Great Orion Nebula as it climbs high overhead in the winter sky. Look to the ...

In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of a black hole, located 53 million light-years away in the ...

When it comes to viewing nebulae, galaxies, and other deep-sky objects, amateur astronomers on a budget have had two options.

It's the last clearly observed supernova in the Milky Way, Gassel said.

— -- As humans, we're limited by what we can see with the naked eye. While we're biologically suited to looking at things up close, our eyes can't zoom in to take a look at far-away objects. But ...

Scientists have unveiled a new way to capture ultra-sharp optical images without lenses or painstaking alignment. The ...

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Using the Subaru Telescope's wide-field camera, astronomers have discovered a previously unknown structure surrounding a tiny ...

In a landmark achievement, the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet. About the same mass as Saturn, it was found in a star system about 111 light-years distant. It’s also the ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified a new moon, S/2025 U1, orbiting the ice giant Uranus. The ...

Scientists discover asteroid spinning once every 1.88 minutes—the fastest rotation ever found for a large space rock. Five ...

A NASA-funded plan to build a large radio telescope on the moon's far side is nearing final approval and could become a reality by the 2030s, researchers say. The ambitious project will help safeguard ...