A new discovery, made using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), may just be the weirdest exoplanet yet, possessing an ...

Smooth filaments stretching for many light-years, seen by the powerful space telescope, could indicate what the right "recipe ...

Conventional telescopes are limited in detecting low-surface-brightness (LSB) structures, which are essential for studying ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will pass Earth safely on 19 December, giving astronomers a rare chance to study a visitor ...

On a mountaintop in northern Chile, the world’s largest digital camera is preparing to power up. Its mission is simple yet ambitious — to photograph the entire night sky in extreme detail and unlock ...

Astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and UCLA will develop a next-generation instrument for detecting and ...

With construction complete, the telescope will now move into final testing. Following testing, Roman will be packaged and ...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), now under construction in the Chilean Andes, is set to revolutionize the field of ...

Go outside right now. What’s the farthest thing you can see? A tree? A bird? What about the Moon? It’s 250,000 miles away. The Sun is 400 times farther than that, at nearly 100 million miles (but ...

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaiʻi have discovered a massive planet and a brown dwarf orbiting distant stars.

Mysterious Bright Flashes in the Night Sky Baffle Astronomers Celestial transients shine furiously and briefly. Astronomers ...

Astronomers have long been concerned about reflections from satellites showing up in images taken by telescopes and other ...