A comet older than our Solar System is within backyard astronomers’ reach. Comet 3I/ATLAS, a rare interstellar visitor discovered in July 2025 by the NASA-funded ATLAS survey in Chile, has emerged ...

New research reveals how Mayan astronomers built a precise eclipse prediction system using complex lunar mathematics.

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A small piece of metal engineered in Australia helped sharpen the James Webb telescope's vision from a million miles away.

This telescope attaches to your smartphone and lets you zoom in on stuff that's far away. It's a fun accessory that's perfect ...

This is the first time the novel imaging technique has been applied to telescopes. For the first time, astronomers have ...

A ‘selfie’ taken during Webb’s testing on Earth. Ball Aerospace After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the ...

We’ve all looked up at the night sky and wondered what those lights really look like up close. Stars, planets, the craters on the moon – they’re all up there, waiting to be explored but telescopes ...

Scientists imaged the heart of the OJ 287 galaxy, uncovering a curved plasma jet around what appears to be two merging supermassive black holes. The structure reveals unimaginable energy levels and ...

The universe doesn’t revolve around Kitt Peak, but the observatory southwest of Tucson is at the center of what could be the biggest breakthrough in the study of the cosmos in decades. Using an ...

Astronomers working at the Large Binocular Telescope on Mount Graham released a flurry of scientific papers Thursday to highlight images that, as predicted, are three times sharper than those gathered ...

Researchers armed with a new "photonic lantern" device have discovered an unexpectedly asymmetrical disk of gas swirling ...