Software engineers have been hard at work to establish a common language for a global conversation. The topic—revealing the ...

Ohio State astronomy professor Adam Leroy is the 2025 recipient of the Henry Draper Medal. The Henry Draper Medal, established in 1886, is awarded every four years to a researcher or pair of ...

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 ...

What if you could find binoculars big enough to qualify as small telescopes? Get ready for the BT–127XL–SD apochromatic ...

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 ...

Making use of the Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, funded in part by the U.S.

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, ...

Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

YR4, the asteroid has a 2.2% chance of hitting our planet on December 22, 2032, according to the European Space Agency.

It is as wide as the wing span of a 747 and has a 1 in 83 chance of hitting the Earth when it arrives in 2032. David Moore of ...