Astronomers want to collect as much data as possible using as many systems as possible. Sometimes that requires coordination ...

NASA’s NEOWISE has allowed astronomers to get the best and most complete view of a star collapsing into a black hole ever recorded.

A dazzling new Hubble image peels back the layers of the mysterious Egg Nebula, a rare and fleeting phase in a Sun-like star’s death just 1,000 light-years away. Hidden inside a dense cocoon of dust, ...

Our project will increase the spatial resolution reachable in the optical by thousands, opening new fields of investigation in astronomy in general. For instance, images could be obtained of the ...

See amazing views of the M74, NGC 7496, IC 5332, NGC 1365, and NGC 1433 galaxies captured using the James Webb Space ...

Discover how high-speed wavefront sensing enhances space situational awareness by overcoming atmospheric distortion.

Do planetary systems also experience a turbulent childhood phase? Images captured by the ALMA telescope network provide a ...

A new high-resolution map of dark matter, created using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, is offering more clues into the part the mysterious stuff plays in the formation of universe. The ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that time was “running out” in the race to build the next great optical telescope ...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, recently announced that they would finance, out of their own pocket, a number of new observatories, including a space telescope dubbed “Lazuli.” ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered new evidence that sheds light on what scientists know about black holes. Launched more than four years ago, the infrared observatory, and successor to the ...