A UCLA-led team has achieved an unprecedented feat: capturing the sharpest image ever recorded of a distant star’s disk—without using a telescope array. The breakthrough was made possible by a novel ...

If you judge things from a mathematical perspective, and you throw in probabilities, there is no chance in freezing hell we are alone in this Universe of ours. Yet, despite decades of looking at the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured a colorful portrait of a nearby stellar cradle, revealing a wealth of insights about ...

From Orion's glowing nebula to the sparkling Pleiades, these winter targets reward anyone willing to brave the cold.

But what really excites the study team is that their new device achieved such a high level of detail on its very first use. They believe that the small device captured the "sharpest-ever measurement ...

Helping young people tap into their excitement about the night sky helps them build confidence and opens career pathways they ...

The new Dobsonian telescope and free astronomy courses will help residents chart galaxies and their own cosmic curiosity ...

Back in 2021, American space agency NASA announced it is working on the "first space telescope built specifically to study, in detail, starlight filtered through exoplanet atmospheres." Now, five ...

SpectrUM recently gained a $250,000 grant from NASA to place telescopes in the fall of this year in libraries across the state of Montana.