Start exploring the night sky with our top picks for beginner-friendly telescopes. Tested for clarity, ease of use and build quality, these are our favorite models to learn astronomy.

Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, ...

A gigantic array of radio dishes proposed for the Utah desert could advance our understanding of physics and help us decode ...

I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...

The telescope’s unusual design, which allows the large instrument to swivel nimbly, makes all of this possible. At full tilt, the 300-ton structure can revolve all the way around in about ... also ...

The brand new Vera Rubin telescope is about to begin its 10-year mission to offer the newest cosmic perspective we've had in a long time. For Big Picture enthusiasts like myself, such an ...

In 1626, Peter Minuit, a Westphalian and this colony’s first governor, bought New York for 60 guilders for about $24, which is nearly what a drink costs today at a Broadway show.

The next great space telescope will study distant galaxies and faraway planets from an orbital outpost about a million miles from Earth. But first it has to be put together, piece by piece, in a ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is providing the best look yet at the chaotic events unfolding around the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, observing a steady ...

NASA’s James Webb telescope is offering a new look at Neptune’s aurora, leading to a new mystery involving the eighth planet from the sun.

The highest-resolution ground-based observations by the Event Horizon Telescope is paving the way for the future of black hole astronomy.

Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy, astronomers reported Monday. The halo, known as an Einstein ring, encircles a galaxy 590 million ...