A moment’s gaze into the skies through a telescope’s eyepiece might create a new astronomy buff. The opportunity awaits visitors, young and old, to a special “stargaze” Friday night at Rose-Hulman’s ...

News got a special tour of the NSF Green Bank Telescope, the largest fully steerable radio telescope in the world, located at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia.

Large and complex sunspot groups characterize the surface of the dynamic sun during its activity cycle. A new camera system ...

NASA, using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and radio telescopes, discovered supermassive black holes in distant galaxies ...

Artist's impression of the Einstein Telescope. (Image: Marco Kraan/Nikhef) ...

Astronomical observations with the James Webb Space Telescope support the hypothesis that the first pronounced structures in our Universe may have formed much earlier than previously assumed.

But when scientists peer very far back, they find conundrums. JWST observations of the distant past are at odds with ...

The mystery of how planets and icy objects formed in the farthest reaches of our solar system just took an exciting turn. A ...

A new camera system has restored the full field of view of the VTT, capturing 8K images using 100 short exposures recorded at ...

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital ...

Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole eating a star. This happened far from the center of its galaxy. The event, ...