A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...
Starting at 12:30 p.m. ET (1730 GMT) on Saturday (Jan. 25), astrophysicist Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...
On January 15-16, Mars reaches opposition and will be visible as it sits perfectly opposite the sun in the night ... so if you are planning on observing these two, a telescope is essential.
Planetary alignments aren't rare, but they can be when they involve six of the eight planets in our solar system.
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of ...
The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...
Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...