In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of a black hole, located 53 million light-years away in the ...

January is the best time of the year to see the Great Orion Nebula as it climbs high overhead in the winter sky. Look to the ...

When it comes to viewing nebulae, galaxies, and other deep-sky objects, amateur astronomers on a budget have had two options.

It's the last clearly observed supernova in the Milky Way, Gassel said.

The University of Arizona will serve as mission control for a newly launched space telescope designed to study distant ...

— -- As humans, we're limited by what we can see with the naked eye. While we're biologically suited to looking at things up close, our eyes can't zoom in to take a look at far-away objects. But ...

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Scientists discover asteroid spinning once every 1.88 minutes—the fastest rotation ever found for a large space rock. Five ...

Using the Subaru Telescope's wide-field camera, astronomers have discovered a previously unknown structure surrounding a tiny ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet using the direct-imaging technique. The host star's light was blocked using a coronagraph to reveal a planet to its right. The light at the ...

A NASA-funded plan to build a large radio telescope on the moon's far side is nearing final approval and could become a reality by the 2030s, researchers say. The ambitious project will help safeguard ...

Astronomers using the NASA and European Space Agency’s Hubble Space Telescope have identified what appears to be a ...