When you become a young observer of the skies, happy to be out in a dark field at night with a 6-inch or 8-inch scope, you never dream of the kind of night of observing I experienced on Thursday, June ...

Star parties are organized events bringing amateur astronomers together for observing under dark skies, often involving camping and lasting for weekends or longer. Activities at star parties include ...

Buying a telescope is a big step, especially if you’re not sure what all those terms — f/ratio, magnification, go-to — mean. So, to eliminate confusion and make sure you understand what you’re buying, ...

From its halo-like orbit nearly a million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope is seeing farther than human eyes have ever seen. In May, astronomers announced that Webb detected the most ...

The Hesta is not a telescope, at least not in the conventional sense, and on its own it's not a smart instrument, either — it contains no computer and no moving parts. Basically, when coupled with a ...

Image of the Galaxy NGC 5907 captured by the K-DRIFT Pathfinder. The yellow region marks an area 1.5 times brighter than the background noise level, while the red arrow points to a faint ...

Simulated planets forming out of protoplanetary disks surrounding young stars to be observed using the new instrument. The left column shows the true signal, and the right column shows images ...

NASA will show off its fully assembled Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to journalists on Tuesday, April 21, at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The agency announced the event on ...