This makes it appear correspondingly smaller through a telescope—infinitesimally smaller, in fact, appearing as only a point ...

If you're wondering what kind of telescope you need to see Saturn and Jupiter, you're halfway to the answer. Although either of the two main types of telescope — refractors and reflectors — can be ...

After only one year of operations, the European Space Agency's Euclid mission has begun to unravel the mystery of why galaxies take on different shapes and how these different shapes relate to each ...

A new trick with light has now helped capture the sharpest-ever measurement of a disk around a nearby star, beta Canis ...

MIT astronomers used the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer to identify key features in the innermost region of a white dwarf ...

Photographing the deep sky at night can be a complicated business involving specialist knowledge, expensive and bulky ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been surveying space since 1990 and has captured some interesting cosmic elements in action.

Local library systems offer everything from Tarot cards to waterproof picnic blankets for cardholders to borrow.

This year’s WTOP “Gift Ideas for Stargazers,” coincides with Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, to possibly help get the best deals for that special someone on your holiday gift list that loves the ...

An international collaboration of physicists including researchers at Washington University in St. Louis has made ...

Observations of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, collected by the James Webb Space ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has shown us images of space we’d never see otherwise, and one of the latest wonders it has ...