The world’s largest optical telescope is nearing the moment when it will begin exploring the universe in unprecedented detail ...

The U.S. Air Force is moving forward with plans to build seven more telescopes on Haleakalā, drawing opposition from those ...

Since it turned on, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of mysterious red blobs in space. The so-called Little ...

Captured in December 2025, the newly released photo (it came out on Feb. 11) reveals how construction is progressing on the ...

New optical modules have now been added to the IceCube Observatory, allowing it to measure lower-energy neutrinos as well.

China’s Einstein Probe has detected an event suspected to be the first recorded instance of a black hole devouring a white dwarf.

This enormous chain of hundreds of galaxies—a cosmic filament—is twisting through space 400 million light-years away ...

The James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory have captured the clearest image yet of a galaxy cluster in the making, seen when the universe was only one billion years old.

It's well established that the universe is expanding, but there's serious disagreement among scientists over how fast it's ...

The telescope primarily detects light in the infrared in order to observe sources such as the first galaxies and protostars.

India has unveiled plans to build two new optical-infrared telescopes and a dedicated solar telescope in the Himalayan desert ...

ASASSN-24fw is a star a little bigger and heavier than our Sun. It is an F-type, main-sequence star which means it is hot, bright, and stable and not prone to sudden explosions ...