"Until now, it was unknown what type of star would remain after the merger." ...

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 ...

We now have direct images of two supermassive black holes: M87* and Sag A*. The fact that we can capture such images is ...

Radio telescopes let you study the universe by collecting faint radio waves from distant objects. To see extremely small ...

The Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57, sits about 2,000 light-years from Earth. It is a planetary nebula—a misleading ...

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.

The James Webb Space Telescope captured infrared light from a black hole and gave scientists unprecedented insights into the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captures imagery of globular cluster NGC 6325. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: ESA/Hubble & ...

A huge bar of iron has been discovered lurking inside the iconic Ring Nebula. The structure is enormous, spanning hundreds of ...

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 ...

Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP ...