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

Chile's Atacama Desert is home to some of the best Earth-based observatories, though an energy company is throwing a wrench ...

Astronomers are raising concerns about the impact of light pollution from a renewable energy project on the world’s most ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted one of the earliest and most distant supernovas, marking the death of a stellar ...

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

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

The James Webb Space Telescope captured photos of one of the earliest supernovas ever seen using infrared technology, and ...

NASA's Roman Space Telescope is preparing for launch in 2027, with a mission to study distant galaxies and explore dark ...

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

The long-closed, 1920s-era observatory in Lake Angelus is important to astronomy buffs. But its private ownership has ...