Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

Since the middle of the month, four of the five brightest planets in the night sky have been visible after sunset and will ...

Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are visible to the naked eye in January and for part of February. Uranus and Neptune can only ...

Giant ground-based reflector telescopes do much of astronomy's heavy lifting, although the U.S.'s largest in Hawaii is not ...

Get ready for lift off when the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences hosts Astronomy Days, Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 1-2, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Go on a celestial ...

Astronomers compile a large sample of an unusual class of objects in an effort to connect the dots to the early universe.

NASA’S Pandora mission has moved one step closer to exploring planets which have the potential for alien life. The team ...

European Southern Observatory Director General Xavier Barcons told Space.com that astronomers expect the project to brighten the sky by up to 10 percent around the observatory.

The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world's largest visible- and infrared-light ...

All these questions and more will be answered at Hands-on Astronomy, a free science event for astronomers young and old on ...

A team of astronomers sifted through James Webb Space Telescope data from multiple surveys to compile one of the largest ...

Astronomers have captured the most detailed infrared images yet of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), using the Large ...