Such a dramatic cut to a flagship space telescope still in its prime will be felt across the mission's entire operations, ...

A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the night sky last month.

From its establishment in 1966 as the Smithsonian Mount Hopkins Observatory, FLWO has hosted a world-class suite of telescopes designed for a wide variety of purposes. The largest visible-light ...

Like its mythological namesake, the Phoenix Cluster burns with blisteringly hot gas, which cools to birth stars. The James ...

Pluto may not be a planet any more, but you still have a chance to see the distant dwarf planet at one of Michigan's ...

Cheyenne’s Marcy Curran, the cofounder of the Cheyenne Astronomy Society and an editor of a major astronomy publication, has ...

They have finally completed the University of Tokyo’s Atacama Observatory, waiting only for an infrared telescope employing a mirror more than 6 meters in diameter to be installed. The ...

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

Paranal Observatory in Chile, home to the Very Large Telescope and future site of the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), which is currently under construction. When completed, the ELT will be the ...

Here we list down 10 such modern day space observatories that showcases India’s quest for space (in alphabet order). The 3.6m Devesthal Optical Telescope is a clear aperture Ritchey-Chretien style ...

Observations revealed ongoing fireworks featuring short bursts and longer flares. Imagine solar flares, but magnified to an ...

Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar ...