In a remarkable development, NASA has confirmed the detection of a mysterious object entering our solar system, classifying ...

A long-exposure image taken from Cerro Pachón captures the luminous road connecting two of Chile's most important ...

In May 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were testing how radio waves bounced off balloon satellites developed by Bell ...

As the 10th American institution to invest, Massachusetts Institute of Technology expands the Giant Magellan Telescope ...

Gravitational-wave astronomy, one of the newest and most exciting fields in science, may soon take a major step forward ...

A new study from Tel Aviv University has predicted, for the first time, the groundbreaking results that can be obtained from ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered dazzling newborn stars and thick cosmic dust in Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way's ...

Gravitational-wave detection technology is poised to make a big leap forward thanks to an instrumentation advance led by physicist Jonathan Richardson of the University of California, Riverside. A ...

From 1985 to 2014, Jean Mueller supported astronomers from around the world who came to Palomar to use its iconic instruments. At the same time, she learned how to operate all three of its major ...

Today, we stand on sacred ground, not only for its pristine, radio-quiet skies, but for its role in uniting nations to ...

This summer, the Montana Learning Center at Canyon Ferry Lake will be opening the doors to its world-class astronomical park — the largest public-access observatory in the Northwestern United States — ...

NASA promised the James Webb Space Telescope would rewrite astronomy—but its discoveries are stranger, scarier, and more groundbreaking than anyone imagined. From impossible galaxies to dark mysteries ...