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

Astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and UCLA will develop a next-generation instrument for detecting and ...

"The natural question that comes up is: how many more space telescopes will be affected when all these constellations are ...

NASA’s decision to shut down a $1 billion infrared space telescope, even as it continued to send back spectacular images, was ...

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 ...

When 3I/ATLAS is closest to the Earth on Dec. 19, all the features that we are looking for will be easier to detect with our ...

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS will fly by Earth on December 19, 2025, and a few key details can help amateur observers spot the visitor in the sky ...

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

With construction complete, the telescope will now move into final testing. Following testing, Roman will be packaged and ...

Astronomers have long been concerned about reflections from satellites showing up in images taken by telescopes and other ...

Go outside right now. What’s the farthest thing you can see? A tree? A bird? What about the Moon? It’s 250,000 miles away. The Sun is 400 times farther than that, at nearly 100 million miles (but ...

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 ...