Sometimes, in order to support an idea, you first have to discredit alternative, competing ideas that could take resources ...

The SOAR Telescope sits on the peak of Cerro Pachón, part of the Chilean Andes mountain range. Recently, a rare winter storm swept across the Atacama desert, bringing snow to the driest place on Earth ...

The world's most powerful telescopes, including the James Webb Space Telescope and FAST, are revolutionizing our understanding of the universe. These advanced instruments, located on Earth and in ...

Centimeter-sized pebbles have been detected in protoplanetary discs using e‑MERLIN, filling in a critical phase of planet ...

The size and mass of the optical alignment system directly limit the amount of fuel and coolant used for the operation of large- or sparse-aperture telescopes in space. The use of fiber-optic ...

Tony Tyson’s cameras revealed the universe’s dark contents. Now, with the Rubin Observatory’s 3.2-billion-pixel camera, he’s ...

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

New observations from England’s e-MERLIN interferometer telescope array display cosmic pebbles that will one day grow into ...

Astronomers have spotted centimeter-sized “pebbles” swirling around two infant stars 450 light-years away, revealing the raw ...

Price history: Before today's deal, the lowest price this year that we've seen for the Celestron NexStar 8SE was $1299 back ...

A new observatory in Chile has produced a stunningly detailed image of a nebula resembling cotton candy, using the largest ...

L3Harris in Rochester played a pivotal role in building the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s massive secondary mirror.