Go outside right now. What’s the farthest thing you can see? A tree? A bird? What about the Moon? It’s 250,000 miles away. The Sun is 400 times farther than that, at nearly 100 million miles (but ...

Members of the Mahoning Valley Astronomical Society are helping residents learn more about the stars and planets by ...

For the first time, scientists have used Earth-based telescopes to look back over 13 billion years to see how the first stars in the universe affect light emitted from the Big Bang. Using telescopes ...

What makes this discovery even more interesting is that ices are not known to survive in planetary nebulae.

The night sky has long sparked wonder and curiosity. Early civilizations studied the stars and tracked celestial events, predicted eclipses and used their observations to construct calendars, develop ...

Small, smart and beginner-friendly, the SeeStar S50 takes the hassle out of stargazing, delivering detailed nebula and galaxy ...

Rochester Institute of Technology astrophysicist Jeyhan Kartaltepe will be one of the first scientists to use NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope soon after it launches in spring 2019. The Webb ...

A scientist at Sandia National Laboratories is exploring an unconventional way to detect asteroids after dark, by turning solar power mirrors into nighttime surveillance tools. John Sandusky believes ...

A NASA team using the Hubble Space Telescope found an object in space never recorded before, nicknamed “Cloud-9.” Cloud-9 is a starless, gas-rich, dark-matter cloud considered a “relic” or remnant of ...

NASA researchers explore a hybrid observatory using a space-based starshade and ground telescopes to improve direct imaging and detect hidden Earth-like exoplanets.

The CDK 14 telescope by Observable Space offers a 14-inch Corrected Dall-Kirkham design, fused silica mirror, carbon fiber tube, and advanced imaging capabilities.

ROCKWOOD, Texas – During the day, this patch of land in sparsely populated central Texas is not remarkable. Eleven buildings, nearly identical, look like bland, oversize backyard sheds. Several large ...