“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...

Get closer to our solar companions with the best telescopes for seeing planets, just in time for February's fantastic planetary parade. Want to focus your stargazing on our cosmic neighbors ...

NASA wants to view the Big Bang with this behemoth, so it's saying goodbye to the James Webb Telescope. The new one redefines ...

Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...

An LSU-led team would like to use a high-flying Antarctic balloon-borne infrared telescope to detect the chemical makeup of ...

From decades of astronomical observations, scientists know that most galaxies contain massive black holes at their centers.

Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the ...

At double the width of our Milky Way galaxy, this jet of radio waves is the biggest ever detected so early in the universe's ...