"These grains are only one millionth of a meter across." The image above may look similar to a combat scene in an Avengers movie, but it's actually a uniquely lit-up view of the dust and gas ...

A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the night sky last month. Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) soared through the starry skies above the European ...

A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the night sky last month. Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) soared through the starry skies above the European ...

He’d just led a $9.5 million seed round for OurSky, a software platform for space observational data, and was eager to see what its telescope partner PlaneWave Instruments could do. But when ...

A: The Extremely Large Telescope is planned to be one of the most capable astronomical observatories ever assembled. The telescope, currently about 60% complete, is intended to search for evidence ...

The best telescopes allow you to observe this month's full planetary parade more closely and give you a front-row seat to the total lunar eclipse in March. The best telescopes unlock the wonders ...

Telescopes are fun to point around the sky, but they’re even better when you have some idea of what you’re actually looking at. Experienced sky-gazers love nothing more than whipping out some ...

Paranal telescope operator Marcela Espinoza says it's essential for Chile to preserve "the best skies in the world" so that other countries keep choosing the region to install their telescopes.

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids. NASA has a network of telescopes used to track near-Earth asteroids, like ...

With next-generation telescopes, tiny space probes, and more, scientists aim to search for life beyond our solar system—and make contact. Propelled to a fifth the speed of light by a laser beam ...