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

Chinese scientists have unveiled details about their work on the Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST), a modern observatory aimed at competing with the James Webb Telescope, built by NASA, ESA, and ...

"If you want to take the stairs and walkways from the entrance of the ELT's dome all the way up to the top, you need about 30 minutes." ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Percival Lowell founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, in 1894 because he was fascinated with Mars. However, nearly 100 years later, the facility is best known as the home of Pluto.

If you think that choosing the most powerful home telescope is just as simple as finding one with the highest magnification capability, then you’re wrong! There are many other key factors affecting a ...