The new Dobsonian telescope and free astronomy courses will help residents chart galaxies and their own cosmic curiosity ...

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A spectacular new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate structures inside the Helix Nebula, where a ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

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Radio telescopes let you study the universe by collecting faint radio waves from distant objects. To see extremely small ...

This NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month brings us a scene from the distant universe. Pictured here ...

Chinese researchers have braved the cold and harsh environment of Antarctica in order to get a unique view of star formation ...

Winds exceeding 110 mph that tore across the top of Mount Hamilton early Christmas morning blasted a massive steel protective door off the iconic white dome at Lick Observatory. Now, with back-to-back ...

A newly discovered exoplanet is rewriting the rules of what planets can be. Orbiting a city-sized neutron star, this Jupiter-mass world has a bizarre carbon-rich atmosphere filled with soot clouds and ...

Recently discovered Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) will make its closest approach to the sun and Earth in late April and could potentially be visible to the naked eye. It may end up being the brightest ...