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

That's the ethos behind Vaonis's Hestia. It's not a smart telescope, or even a normal telescope. Think of it as a lens to ...

Isolation dictates where we go to see into the far reaches of the universe. The Atacama Desert of Chile, the summit of Mauna ...

SpectrUM recently gained a $250,000 grant from NASA to place telescopes in the fall of this year in libraries across the state of Montana.

SkyMapper and the SETI Institute have formed a strategic partnership to help SkyMapper build a decentralized telescope ...

The night sky has long sparked wonder and curiosity. Early civilizations studied the stars and tracked celestial events, predicted eclipses and used their observations to construct calendars, develop ...

It may be one of the most iconic sights in the night sky, but astronomers have never seen the Helix Nebula like this before.

University of Chicago astronomy and astrophysics professor Donald G. York​, who is credited with pioneering contributions to ...

There’s no mistaking Jupiter in the sky these Pottsville winter evenings, rising in the southeast as evening twilight ends.

Tessa Hunkin and the Hackney Mosaic Project are responsible for perhaps the greatest collection of modern mosaics in London. As well as the Queenhithe mosaic above, her work beautifies many other ...

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...

The giant planet Jupiter is back in our evening sky this week. Fresh from its opposition with the sun on Jan. 10, it now lies as close to the Earth as it ...