Which is better for astrophotography — a camera lens or a refractor telescope? Here’s a direct comparison to help you decide ...

The telescope began as a crude spyglass in the 1600s but quickly became the tool that redefined humanity’s place in the ...

After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA's US$10 ...

A novel imaging technique used for the first time on a ground-based telescope has helped a UCLA-led team of astronomers to ...

After using their new technique , the astronomers measured the star’s color-reliant imagery shifts with five times the ...

Comet Lemmon will have its closest brush with Earth on or around Tuesday, Oct. 21. Comet SWAN should have its flyby with ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Jean Mueller became Palomar Observatory’s first female telescope operator in 1985, breaking decades-old gender ...

NASA has announced that for the first time, it will contract out a private spacecraft to reboost one of its falling satellites: the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. The observatory has spent the past ...

NGC 2775 has features of both spiral and elliptical galaxies. Astronomers have long sorted galaxies into types based on their visible structure. Spiral galaxies, like our Milky Way, have a flat disk, ...

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Scientists have gotten a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons like the one orbiting Earth could potentially form. "Moons likely outnumber planets ...