Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) and by analyzing archival Arecibo Observatory data, ...

The moon's ascending node (the point in the sky where its orbit crosses the ecliptic from south to north) is moving westward ...

On the evening of Friday, February 7, skywatchers across central Florida and southern Texas will be treated to a rare celestial sight as the waxing gibbous moon rises unusually high in the sky.

A valuable collection of vintage scientific equipment, including telescopes, controllers and a device invented on-site called a "spectroheliokinematograph," is locked up inside. At a time of ...

The blue-painted structure is the large bearing that allows the telescope to move in right ascension. The telescope declination axis is located at the level of the middle of the right ascension ...

Dark skies in rural areas offer unmatched visibility, perfect for spotting faint planets. 'A space fight starts this month': NASA's SPHEREx to uncover cosmic secrets James Webb missed 'Earth's ...

Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will be visible to the naked eye and Neptune and Uranus can be seen through a telescope. "You can tick them all off in five minutes," Chris Lintott, BBC Sky at ...

Credit: NAOJ The James Webb Space Telescope has provided groundbreaking insights into a new type of exoplanet, fundamentally different from those in our Solar System, by piercing through thick cloud ...

The Subaru Telescope in Hawai‘i is adding a new instrument to its arsenal, one that will observe the cosmos through a compound eye. The compound eye will allow Subaru to observe about 2,400 ...

Scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to study the unusual star-forming timeline of dwarf galaxy Leo P. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Kristen McQuinn Most small galaxies that stopped making ...