Built two of the world's most powerful radio telescopes with limited resources and designs no one had attempted before, Govind Swarup gave India a place in global astronomy that the field cannot ...

Reaching out and seeing into the vast distances of space means using incredibly sophisticated equipment and the perfect ...

Cheers erupted through a housing estate as the solar eclipse began during a watch party put on by a teenage astronomer Aston, 14, set up telescopes, helped with homemade viewers and gave away 400 ...

People gather in York, Leeds and Bradford to view the most significant solar eclipse since 1999.

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

The budget-friendly Dwarf Mini and Seestar S30 performed better than I'd anticipated. Here's my take after shooting with both ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers have discovered a close pair of actively feeding supermassive black holes, seen when the universe was just 1.3 billion ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

August nights put on a serious show at this Washington dark sky park, where clear skies can reveal the Milky Way in ...

In a first, astronomers say they’ve detected a long ribbon of stars outside the Milky Way. The globular cluster stellar stream could reveal clues about dark matter.

Amateur and professional astronomers pointed their telescopes at the impact site. Most did not detect anything.

Jodie Foster tearing up a dirt road, yelling stellar coordinates into a walkie-talkie à la the 1997 sci-fi film Contact. Control rooms alive with a cacophony of “enhance that signal”. Real-time ...