Interstellar objects move too fast and arrive too rarely for astronomy to rely on a single instrument or a single kind of light. When comet 3I/ATLAS was first reported on July 1, 2025, observatories ...

Gerko has donated to numerous science- and maths-focused projects over the years. He is co-funding the development of a sky telescope at the University of North Carolina, donated $10mn to two groups ...

On a mountaintop in northern Chile, the world’s largest digital camera is preparing to power up. Its mission is simple yet ambitious — to photograph the entire night sky in extreme detail and unlock ...

Researchers in the US have demonstrated how quantum entanglement could be used to detect optical signals from astronomical ...

What strikes the eye in this seemingly ordinary image of an astronomical observatory are the laser beams piercing the ...

Space rarely gives up its secrets easily. For instance, what looks like a single ...

Anastasios (Andy) Tzanidakis was combing through old telescope data from 2020 when he found an otherwise boring star acting ...

It is the colours of a sunset that inspire Joseph Anderson, an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in the high Atacama desert, in northern Chile. “They start off very blue and ...

An 8th-grade astrophotographer from Apple Valley captured a stunning image of the Bubble Nebula, 7,000 light-years away.

The Harlan J. Smith Scholars program involves astronomy undergraduates in observing on a major telescope at McDonald Observatory.