The planet Neptune has a large dark spot "with an unexpected smaller bright spot adjacent to it," inveru observations using ...

A unique gas giant has been confirmed through global teamwork, offering insights into planetary formation and future ...

For years, scientists have suspected that stars can meet their doom by a one-two punch of back-to-back explosions — but ...

Sculptor—officially labeled NGC 253—is considered a starburst galaxy, one heavy with stellar action. It's located 11 million light-years away in the Southern Hemisphere's constellation Sculptor, and ...

Because it doesn't interreact with light or electromagnetism, dark matter exists to us only through its influence on visible ...

The European Space Agency said Wednesday that scientists have discovered what might be only the third known interstellar ...

We have discovered two interstellar objects so far, ’Oumuamua and Comet 2I/Borisov. ’Oumuamua had no dust tail and a ...

Texas astronomers are part of the effort to construct the Giant Magellan Telescope – an effort that will bring a new level of ...

The telescope has the largest digital camera ever made. It’s so precise that one image alone contains 10 million galaxies.

The same goes for ground-based telescopes like the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory in Chile. While binoculars can easily capture the entire full moon, Hubble's field of view ...

A prototype antenna for the proposed Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) radio telescope in New Mexico. If funded, the project would greatly expand U.S. radio astronomy capabilities.

The so-called "Extremely Large Telescope" is being built on a mountaintop in the Andes at an elevation of about 3,000 meters. And it really is extremely large.