Alignments of five or more planets are rare—there will be two more featuring five or more planets this year, but after that ...

If you think that choosing the most powerful home telescope is just as simple as finding one with the highest magnification capability, then you’re wrong! There are many other key factors affecting a ...

The most powerful rocket booster ever built was caught ... Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016.

The UPEI telescope is much more powerful than most home models, Glover says. (Stephen Brun/CBC) Glover and the physics department assistants now also offer daytime public viewings during the ...

Astronomers are sounding alarm bells as the world's most precious sky-observing location faces a risk of being blinded by ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured photos of ... "We think every dense, dusty region that we see, and most of the ones we don’t see, look like this on the inside," he said.

The most powerful telescope ever put into space has made a historic discovery. The most powerful telescope to be launched ...

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

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

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