Unfortunately, there's more bad news to report on the clear skies front. A new paper, available on the arXiv preprint server ...

NASA's plans to return astronauts to the moon through the Artemis program and ultimately send humans to Mars highlight just ...

I stuck to my "no telescope" rule for years, right up until a trip to New Brunswick's dark-sky corridor a few years ago, when ...

Views of a massive galaxy cluster Abell 2256 have been captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton and ...

The Moon’s surface has been sampled, scanned, and photographed for decades, yet one of the most basic questions about it ...

The stars at night are big and bright in Rockwood.

Katalyst Space’s LINK mission is preparing for launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility later this month to perform the ...

Jupiter, meanwhile, will be progressively harder to spot following its rendezvous with Venus on June 9, appearing ...

Take a look through our telescopes while you’re out exploring Washington, DC, weather permitting. Join us outside the Museum ...

Astronomers have used the Gemini North telescope to capture a new image of a planetary nebula nicknamed the Crystal Ball ...

Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have discovered the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever detected, opening a new radio astronomy frontier. A hydroxyl megamaser is a ...

Telescopes at the remote site are set to surpass Hawaii's Mauna Kea in light-gathering power by the mid-2030s, scientists say ...