Friday, June 5Standing some 50° high in the south by 10 P.M. local daylight time, M5 is a fabulous globular cluster well ...

June will offer some prime summer nights for stargazing, a view of Mercury and, to round out the month, a micro Strawberry Moon.

Sir Isaac Newton, a giant of science, left us a profound thought. His words on gravity reveal that while science explains how ...

The Kepler telescope changed how we saw the sky. It’s just one of the devices we’ve sent out beyond the reach of humans to ...

We just took one final look at NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, and now? It's officially ready for launch.

Later this year, a prototype telescope is slated to land on the moon. It could usher in a new era of lunar radio astronomy.

NASA’s Fermi telescope may have finally uncovered the magnetic powerhouse behind the universe’s brightest supernovae.

Our understanding of the electromagnetic spectrum goes back to Isaac Newton, but astronomers are still finding new ways to ...

NASA’s next great space telescope will see 100 times more sky than Hubble. It’s about to arrive in Florida for launch in ...

The debate could reopen in 2030 when NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft gets the closest view of the icy moon’s surface.

Over hundreds of years, increasingly sophisticated instruments have revealed — and continue to reveal — the secrets of our star.

Advances in quantum technology might allow astronomers to circumvent age-old issues that limit the size of optical observatories ...