The James Webb Space Telescope has captured captivating images of the Space Butterfly, a nebula thousands of light-years away. The intricacies of this discovery and its implications in astronomical ...

The hunt is on. A group of scientists has banded together to build the world’s first privately funded deep-space telescope, to hunt for asteroids that could pose a major threat to Earth. The private ...

A radio telescope project known as the Deep Synoptic Array is moving forward. It aims to detect radio waves emitted by stars, planets, galaxies and other celestial objects.

Astronomers may have witnessed one of the rarest and most dramatic cosmic events ever seen: a long-sought intermediate-mass ...

Below the waves of the Mediterranean, Europe's KM3NeT neutrino telescope is on a cosmic hunt. Towering strings of sensors stretch a kilometer down to the seafloor, arranged in a vast 3D grid. Its ...

TL;DR: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured unprecedented near-infrared images of the Helix Nebula, revealing detailed structures of gas and dust as a dying star disintegrates. Located 650 ...

Prototype dishes for Caltech’s DSA at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory, nestled between the Sierra Nevada and the White Mountains in California’s Mojave. Credit: Katie Jameson / Caltech / DSA ...

With the help of an extremely powerful telescope deep underground in Japan, astronomers may be able to catch a glimpse of ghost particles from long-dead stars. When you purchase through links on our ...

The most distant and rewarding sights in the night sky are also the faintest. Here’s what deep-space objects are, what optics you’ll need to see them and how to plan your observing. When you purchase ...

Light is the fastest phenomenon in the universe, clocking in at just under 300,000 kilometers per second. The telescopes that observe that light, from radio waves to gamma rays, are built at rather ...

After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A couple more test flights, and SpaceX plans to launch it into orbit. A month ...