The new MOTHRA telescope hopes to reveal the “cosmic web”, which huge network of gas and dark matter that connects galaxies across the cosmos. It aims to do so by using a specific kind of telescope – ...

This all-inclusive refractor is best for observing planets and the moon, but still able to give skywatchers some glimpses of deep-sky objects.

Small, smart and beginner-friendly, the SeeStar S50 takes the hassle out of stargazing, delivering detailed nebula and galaxy ...

Being able to spot the Earth, let alone any signs of life on our planet, would require an enormous telescope from 66 million ...

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum welcomes two new acquisitions to the collection—the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) Pathfinder and Parker Solar Probe model. The Pathfinder is a ...

The TMT project is back under consideration for federal support, but it must complete a final design phase without taxpayer assistance.

The world's first commercial space telescope has released its first image as it begins its journey to help track nearby stars ...

Imagine looking up at the night sky and seeing a star suddenly burst into a blaze of light brighter than anything nearby. A flash so bright that it briefly outshines an entire galaxy before fading ...

Deep inside a dust-choked galaxy, astronomers have uncovered a chemical environment far more complex than expected.

A galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter, an elusive form of matter that doesn’t interact with light, was spotted by Hubble 250 million light-years from Earth.

Construction has begun on a new telescope designed to map one of the universe’s ...