Go outside right now. What’s the farthest thing you can see? A tree? A bird? What about the Moon? It’s 250,000 miles away. The Sun is 400 times farther than that, at nearly 100 million miles (but ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has become visible from Earth once again after zooming behind the sun, new images reveal. An astronomer used the Lowell Observatory's powerful Discovery Telescope in ...

This all-inclusive refractor is best for observing planets and the moon, but still able to give skywatchers some glimpses of deep-sky objects.

This video will make you think twice before you look at the sun. Astronomer Mark Thompson took a pig's eyeball and held it up to the lens of an 18 millimeter telescope pointed directly at the sun. The ...

Earlier this year, on July 1, a 20-inch telescope in the Rio Hurtado Valley of Chile was conducting its nightly survey when it detected something remarkable. One of five telescopes in the NASA-funded ...

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In a new study, astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to study black hole events that would otherwise have been impossible to see—and in the process, they proved that dormant black holes ...