Local stargazers promised to bring the celestial world to earth by September during Saturday’s groundbreaking for Chico’s first public star observatory. With the ceremonial flip of spaded earth, the ...

Curious about what planets look like through a telescope? This guide breaks down what you’ll see based on your telescope’s ...

Rubin Observatory in Chile. Launched in 2023, the ESA's $1.5 billion Euclid space telescope is equipped with a near-perfect 3-feet 11-inch-wide primary mirror and two instruments: a 600 megapixel ...

The first successful use of a radio telescope on the moon has kicked off a new era of astronomy that could shed light on the cosmic dark ages – despite a bumpy landing. NASA’s ROLSES-1 (Radio ...

Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on amateur telescopes. Engineers and astronomers at the University of Utah have ...

But after pointing the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert at the distant galaxy, the researchers were stunned by what they found: JADES-GS-z14 ...

Extraordinary images from the Euclid space telescope have captured 26 million galaxies, some as far off as 10.5 billion light years. Euclid was launched by the European Space Agency (ESA ...

A conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez You don't see this every day. "Our hope with this kind of ...

Researchers pointing their telescopes at stars and galaxies are increasingly finding their observations marred by light streaks and radiofrequency interference from satellites flying overhead.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...

Shamir, Lior, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2025 under CC BY 4.0 NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launched into orbit around the sun in December 2021. Since then ...

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