A spectacular new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate structures inside the Helix Nebula, where a ...

We now have direct images of two supermassive black holes: M87* and Sag A*. The fact that we can capture such images is ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

A billionaire-backed philanthropic organization is funding the development of a series of new observatories, including a space telescope larger than Hubble.

This is not a close-up of a sparkling soda from a movie theater promotion. The James Webb Space Telescope captured this image ...

After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A ...

Imagine having a telescope that could see almost 14 billion years back in time to when the universe was just forming. There is a project underway called CMB-S4 that plans to build two next-generation ...

Gemini South on the summit of Cerro Pachón in Chile (left) and Gemini North on the summit of Maunakea in Hawai’i (right). Gemini / NSF / AURA Hackers have launched an apparent cyberattack on the ...

New telescope instruments now reveal distant galaxies in detail, reshaping how astronomers map dark matter, star formation, and the early universe.

Physicists and engineers at CU Boulder envision infrared astronomy telescopes that may one day span the entire globe—syncing up observations from instruments spread across the continents, or even ...

More than 100 years ago, astronomer George Ellery Hale brought our two Pasadena institutions together to build what was then the largest optical telescope in the world. The Mt. Wilson Observatory ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Barry Collins is a tech journalist writing about PCs, Macs and games. When you think of a telescope, you think of an enormous long ...