A new telescope atop a mountain in Chile will help scientists look back to when the universe had just begun.

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

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 ...

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

There’s bad news to report on the clear skies front. A new paper, available as a preprint on arXiv from researchers at NASA’s ...

In astronomers’ speak, the term galactic bulge stands for the dense cluster of billions of stars, many of them packed tightly ...

NASA plans to mount a daring mission to stave off the destruction of the Swift Observatory, which has been falling back to ...

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

The Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured a "violent cosmic ...

One of the biggest problems astronomers face when they peer into the night sky is that the heavens above appear two-dimensional. And, indeed, shortly after launch, JWST seemed to make those dreams ...

The stars at night are big and bright in Rockwood.

An illustration of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The NASA observatory was designed to settle essential questions in ...