The Orion spacecraft will be visible, if challenging, from the U.S. early on the morning of Friday, April 10. Here's how to ...

The Paranal solar ESPRESSO Telescope (PoET), installed at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) Paranal site in Chile, ...

The newly identified star carries almost no heavy elements, making it a rare surviving relic from the universe’s earliest chapters.

For a long time, it was thought that this [technique] required telescopes in space,” says John Mather, the Nobel ...

The Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) has discovered tens of thousands of gigantic hydrogen gas halos, called ...

Scientists estimate there are thousands of asteroids large enough to destroy a city near Earth. NASA is sending a telescope ...

Cousins says he is “hopeful” that the findings of gravitational-wave cosmology will be able shed more light on the Hubble ...

A record-setting pristine star provides a window into the dawn of stars and galaxies in the universe. This breakthrough was ...

A galaxy spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope, known as Hebe, that existed just 400 million years after the big bang ...

South Africa is using homegrown technology to answer questions about where our universe came from and where it is going.

PicII-503 is likely a second-generation star, born from the remnants of the very first stars, according to a new study ...

If you think you need to travel to remote deserts or mountain peaks to see a proper night sky, Jenny Jump State Forest near Hope, New Jersey, would like a word. This northwestern New Jersey treasure ...