Thirty-four years after Cornell University scientists first conceived it, the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) now ...

Thirty-four years after scientists first conceived it, the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) now rises above the ...

A 5,000-pound radio telescope shipped from Germany arrived at the University of Virginia on March 31, 2026, giving a team of astronomers a new tool to search for dark matter in deep space. The ...

The Paranal solar ESPRESSO Telescope (PoET), installed at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) Paranal site in Chile, has made its first observations. The telescope will work with ESO's ...

Learn about the largest batch of asteroid discoveries from the last year, which scientists say “is just the tip of the ...

Scientists in Japan have developed a high-resolution X-ray telescope sharp enough to distinguish an object just 3.5 mm wide from one kilometer away, by combining precision mirror-making technology ...

Spread the loveIn a remarkable leap for global astronomy, China has unveiled a groundbreaking space telescope that is set to transform our understanding of the universe. This advanced instrument, with ...

Passover is a major Jewish holiday, celebrated over the course of a week each year in springtime. It commemorates the exodus ...

Dustin Maguire, a first-year graduate student studying astronomy and physics education in the observatory, said renovations ...

North: The Big Dipper is high in the sky. Following the two stars at the end of the cup to the next bright star, Polaris, or the North Star. The constellation Cassiopeia is down and to the left of ...

Like tiny photobombers, cosmic anomalies resembling small, bright red points show up in almost every snapshot taken by the most powerful space telescope ever made. Astronomers now call them little red ...