As U.S. butterfly populations face declines, the John Ball Zoo has launched a program to save these insects in a race against extinction.

The new species was observed spending “long periods sunning itself,” on a tree high up in Angola’s central highlands, according to a study.

The discovery of a new butterfly species in Kerala’s Western Ghats has excited scientists and conservationists alike. Named ...

Every time a large telescope is built, its designers must re-think the challenges, check every application, and improve on what has been done before. The 6.5-meter Baade and Clay telescopes were built ...

A metrology system capable of cofocusing and cophasing is essential to ensure the performance of large segmented space telescopes, similar to that of monolithic telescopes, as well as to image the ...

ASKAP Telescope Discovers 15 Massive Giant Radio Galaxies, Largest Objects in the Known Universe ASKAP finds 15 enormous Giant Radio Galaxies, one spanning 12.4 million light-years.

A new discovery from a University of Hawaii-operated telescope is turning heads in the astronomy world.

NASA's CODEX telescope aboard the ISS has captured first-of-its-kind images of the sun's outer atmosphere, revealing new insights into solar wind and corona dynamics.

The most distant known example of what astronomers call a “jellyfish galaxy” has been spotted by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

Tuesday Telescope: A howling wolf in the night sky "Ever since I saw it for the first time, it's been high on my list." ...

Oregon is the No. 3 location in the U.S. “to catch a real asteroid sighting without needing a telescope or a degree in astrophysics.” So says a new study from The Action Network, released just ...

In 1970, the University of Hawaiʻi’s 2.2-meter telescope was dedicated at the summit of 13,803-foot Maunakea, becoming the world’s highest and first computer-controlled telescope.