Opposition is growing in Hawaii to the military's plan to add up to seven space surveillance telescopes atop Haleakalā ...

Straight to the dome.

How space telescopes capture distant galaxies using infrared imaging, precision optics, and astronomy technology beyond Earth's atmosphere.

The Sun would be a far more powerful telescope than any humanity could create in the near future. But to use it, we need to get to 650 AU.

Webb Telescope finds crystalline water ice around star HD 181327. This discovery could reveal how icy bodies contribute to ...

Lanakila Mangauil, one of the most recognizable faces of the movement to stop construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on ...

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Since the 1990s, scientists have discovered approximately 6,100 planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets.

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Since the 1990s, astronomers have found a handful of other dwarf planets in the belt, such as Eris and Sedna, along with ...

Scientists scanning the heart of the Milky Way have spotted a tantalizing signal: a possible ultra-fast pulsar spinning every 8.19 milliseconds near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at our ...

A massive star in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has simply disappeared. Some astronomers believe that it's collapsed in on ...