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.

Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

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.

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 ...

Two 40-meter diameter radio telescopes in Changbai Mountain, Jilin province, and Shigatse, Xizang autonomous region, have been put into operation, the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese ...

Galactic nuclei images reveal how supermassive black holes interact with their surroundings using infrared telescopes.

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

Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...

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