The challenge in the search for habitable worlds is clear. We need to be able to identify habitable worlds and distinguish ...

Astronauts Steven Smith and John Grunsfeld, appear as small figures in this wide-angle photograph from December 1999, taken ...

The plains house the aptly named Very Large Array (VLA)—a radio telescope made of 27 different antennas, each of which looks ...

A new telescope project called the Next-Generation Very Large Array will revolutionize radio astronomy if it gets the funding ...

A team of solar physicists has released a new study shedding light on the fine-scale structure of the sun's surface. Using ...

A NASA-funded plan to build a large radio telescope on the moon's far side is nearing final approval and could become a ...

The Blackrock Castle telescope gives astronomers and visitors alike a window on other worlds, exploring the possibility of ...

Technological advances do not leave the study of space exempt. Thanks to the possibilities offered by evolution, devices such as telescopes are improved as never before, and resear ...

Invisible radiation leaking out of private satellites, like SpaceX's Starlink spacecraft, is disrupting radio astronomers' ...

Dozens of NASA's missions to explore the cosmos could be in jeopardy under a budget proposal from the Trump administration.

A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and its largest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, predicted to occur in about 4.5 ...

One of the largest in the United States is called Stellafane, and it takes place every August in Springfield, Vermont. Ormerod photographed the 2018 gathering, where telescopes grew from the grass ...