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Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

You may have heard of the Very Large Telescope, but did you know it can function as a massive 200-meter-wide virtual telescope? Or that it outperforms many newer telescopes with its sheer scientific ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...

Researchers using the Event Horizon Telescope have significantly advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mysterious little red dots threatened to overhaul modern cosmology—but new research may have solved the celestial conundrum.

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

ESO estimates the complex will leak as much light pollution as a city with a population of about 20,000. Parts of the ...

Ask an astronomer what the best monocular is for astronomy, and they will give you the same answer: One of the best telescopes. After all, a telescope is nothing more than a large monocular ...