Sometimes astronomers don't need giant telescopes to observe the wonders of the cosmos; they just need to look up at the ...

In our galaxy, a supernova explodes about once or twice each century. But historical astronomical records show that the last ...

A bold new era in astronomy is on the horizon. By 2029, Schmidt Sciences, the philanthropic foundation founded by former ...

Lately we've been reporting about a series of studies on the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), NASA's flagship telescope ...

The next Milky Way supernova may not surprise astronomers at all. According to a recent study available on the arXiv preprint server, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, ahead of its decade-long Legacy ...

One would think that a US$99,000 telescope requires specialist training and a thick instruction manual. But the new Hyperia ...

The most recent CSC update adds more than 400,000 unique compact and extended X-ray sources, as well over 1.3 million ...

On January 18, 2002, the National Science Foundation formally opened the Gemini South telescope in Chile. This became the ...

NASA scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory have identified an early-stage galaxy cluster forming just one billion years after the Big Bang, challenging current ...

After Santa delivered big trouble to Lick Observatory — the iconic astronomy complex atop Mount Hamilton east of San Jose where ferocious winds early Christmas morning blasted open the steel dome ...

The historic building atop Mt. Hamilton is red-tagged and closed to visitors. But Astronomer Elinor Gates gave us a ...

Mercury spill closes Sunspot Solar Observatory and nearby forest trails indefinitely, though officials say there is no public ...