A team at the ESO's headquarters in Garching, Germany, has hatched a plan for the OverWhelmingly Large telescope, which will have a mirror measuring 100 metres across. The project's leader ...

A near-complete census of our interstellar neighborhood hopes to answer how stars, brown dwarfs and rogue planets form ...

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope, astronomers have discovered that a galaxy cluster is wrapped in an envelope of ...

"We will push the limits of what we can observe, and use every gravitational lens we detect with Roman to pin down the ...

The sharpest images of the universe are created when radio telescopes around the world work together. For the first time, the ...

This might sound like an obvious thing for a professional stargazer to say. But astrophysicist Federica Bianco was reacting ...

The game-changing Vera C. Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes ...

A NASA-funded plan to build a large radio telescope on the moon's far side is nearing final approval and could become a reality by the 2030s, researchers say. The ambitious project will help ...

When we look out at the night sky, stars are overwhelmingly what we see—thousands of them, ranging from Sirius, the brightest ...

The VLA is more than 40 years old; the Green Bank Telescope, completed in 2001, is more than 20. And NRAO’s latest instrument, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, opened 12 years ago.

Small telescopes in Chile are first on Earth to cut through the cosmic noise, peering back more than 13 billion years to the ...

Surveying nearby galaxies in the process of merging with other galaxies, astronomers have identified massive, dense star ...