April 21 - 28 is International Dark Sky Week, a global celebration of the night sky during which like-minded organizations ...

Modern astronomers now have an advanced understanding of many of the objects in the night sky, and have even determined that ...

The Catholic Church has almost always been at the forefront of astronomical research and its facilities in Arizona are among ...

Galileo Galilei is arguably the most important scientist to ever live. He perfected the first telescopes, turned them toward ...

A conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez Space is phantasmagorical. Astronomers using the powerful ...

This week, readers write about their day at Discovery Bay, the new Kai Tak Sports Park and what they know about the sun.

Serving nine UC campuses and two national laboratories, Lick Observatory continues to be at the forefront of groundbreaking ...

It’s cold. It’s dark. Each person awaits a turn at the eyepiece of a 20-inch telescope trained on an object. A marbled sphere, swirled in colors of maroon, rust, and cream. It’s Jupiter ...

New observations by the James Webb Space Telescope - sort of a postmortem examination - indicate that the planet's demise happened differently than initially thought. Instead of the star coming to ...

The planetary science budget would plunge from $2.7 billion to $1.9 billion. No telescope other than the extant Hubble and Webb telescopes will be funded, including the Nancy Grace Roman Space ...

Two groups in Kolkata related to astronomy have created what they claim to be the largest handmade telescope in the city — a 14.5-inch f/5 Dobsonian that is low-cost, powerful, and easy to handle.

Venus is very bright right now and can be seen with the naked eye just after sunset. Using a telescope, backyard astronomers ...