A new telescope could launch as early as late February. SPHEREx will look into deep space and also search for organic ...

While it is already dimming after a close encounter with the sun, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) – also called the Great Comet of ...

Very Large Telescope observations of the galaxy revealed that there was likely a “sudden awakening of the massive black hole at its core,” according to the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Credit; ...

Chinese scientists have deployed prototype detectors in the South China Sea to explore building a large underwater ...

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

Walking to the roof of Carnegie Science Hall to visit the college's observatory feels like being in a boat — the strange ...

A stronomers using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile have imaged a filament of the ...

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 ...

Supermassive black holes can fuel their own growth by cooling and recycling gas, creating a continuous cycle of feeding and ...

From decades of astronomical observations, scientists know that most galaxies contain massive black holes at their centers.

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

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.