Daniel Stelly, a senior from Cienega High School, had his fingers pressed against a knob on the telescope mount like he was taking a pulse. He was hoping to feel the ticking of the motor that tracked ...

Chile is a hotspot for telescopes peering up into deep space to study structures like stars, black holes, dark matter and galaxies. In the high-altitude desert of northern Chile sits the Atacama Large ...

Perched high on a ridge in the South American Andes, a new observatory aims to revolutionize our understanding of the cosmos and unravel some of the mysteries it holds. Featuring the world’s largest ...

The most powerful solar telescope in the world has recorded a major milestone atop an active volcano in Hawaii, capturing a detailed image of a cluster of sunspots with the telescope's new Visible ...

Jacob Payne, a graduate student and research assistant at the University of Iowa’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, landed a NASA grant to build a small X-ray telescope that can assist with deep ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers from Canada and Switzerland have discovered a new galaxy, which received designation COSMOS2020-635829. The newfound object appears to undergo ...

An ambitious, multinational project to survey the entire Southern Hemisphere’s night sky over a 10-year period has thousands of astronomers, astrophysicists and data scientists on the threshold of a ...

In the high-altitude desert of northern Chile sits the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Conceived as a partnership among scientists in Europe, North America, East Asia, and Chile, ...