The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), now under construction in the Chilean Andes, is set to revolutionize the field of ...

"This observation also demonstrates that we can use Webb to find individual stars when the universe was only 5% of its ...

On a mountaintop in northern Chile, the world’s largest digital camera is preparing to power up. Its mission is simple yet ambitious — to photograph the entire night sky in extreme detail and unlock ...

The new James Webb Space Telescope's image of the Pillars of Creation, released July 11, sparked new interest in the development of space technology from the public, according to BYU physics and ...

NASA is sounding a clear alarm about the way SpaceX is reshaping low orbit, warning that the company’s satellite swarms and ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory and the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, formerly known as LSST and WFIRST respectively, are major new astronomical observatories named after pioneering female ...

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ground-based observations at this wavelength." ...

More than 100 years ago, astronomer George Ellery Hale brought our two Pasadena institutions together to build what was then the largest optical telescope in the world. The Mt. Wilson Observatory ...

Conventional telescopes are limited in detecting low-surface-brightness (LSB) structures, which are essential for studying ...

"JWST was launched on Christmas day, and then was a present that took six months to unwrap," said Jane Rigby, an astronomer at NASA and the Operations Project Scientist. The Pillars of Creation were ...

It is the colours of a sunset that inspire Joseph Anderson, an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in the high Atacama desert, in northern Chile. “They start off very blue and ...

Choose a telescope easy for a child to set up and use. Select a durable telescope that can withstand rough handling. Consider a simple telescope; complex ones can be discouraging. Prioritize a ...