Summer is quickly approaching and with warm nights coming, the clearer skies beckon stargazers to look up and explore the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope marks its 35th anniversary with a stunning new image of the Sombrero Galaxy. This detailed view ...

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

Astrophotographer Ron Brecher has captured a stunning deep sky image of the spiral galaxy M106, located 23.5 million light ...

National Astronomy Day is quickly approaching, and to celebrate, the University of Illinois Springfield will host two events, ...

How can you fairly compare one telescope to another? It's all in the (angular) resolution. The entire point of introducing telescopes into astronomy is to make distant things more visible.

At nearly 10,000 feet above sea level - and almost 6,200 miles (10,000 kilometers) from Rome - you’ll find the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT), part of the Mount Graham ...

But the latest budget proposal, if approved by Congress, could be a death knell for the already-constructed space telescope. "This is nuts," Simons Foundation president and former co-chair of ...