Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

From new exoplanetary neighbors and a weakening dark energy to the best evidence for life on Mars and an interstellar comet ...

For more than three months, a pair of observatories, positioned on either side of the Sun, managed to track an active region ...

Size matters when it comes to telescopes. The bigger they are, the farther they can see. Prioritizing constructing large ones ...

Astronomers are gathering in Phoenix this week for the 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS 247), where ...

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...

The latest news from around North Texas. The first full moon of 2026 will take place on January 3rd. That moon, known as the ...

In observations conducted between April 5 and April 10, 2017, the team looked at the relativistic jet produced by OJ 287, a ...

New telescope instruments now reveal distant galaxies in detail, reshaping how astronomers map dark matter, star formation, ...

Bigger than Hubble and launching as soon as 2029, the Lazuli Space Observatory would be the first-ever full-scale private ...

Amateur astronomers and stargazers on Staten Island and the New York metropolitan area will have an excellent opportunity to ...