The Subaru Telescope, operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, has been registered as "Essential ...

Astronomers have discovered the raw ingredients of planets orbiting two infant stars, offering a glimpse into how new worlds ...

Technological limitations for manufacturing large, round telescopes has experts considering unconventional shapes to improve ...

A Chilean astronomer has become dedicated to battling light pollution in the Atacama Desert and preserve what is considered ...

Three years into its mission, the James Webb Space Telescope has advanced the search for alien life more than any machine ...

A key mystery about Type Ia supernovas is that, in the dominant theory known as D6, a white dwarf would need a companion star ...

The world's greatest space telescopes have all been round. Now, a new rectangular design could turbocharge our search for ...

Spotting Earth-like planets is nearly impossible with conventional telescopes, but researchers propose a bold fix: a ...

Researchers have spotted a Jupiter-like gas giant forming in the disk around a young sun — earlier in the star's lifetime ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has found a lonely black hole in the early universe that’s as heavy as 50 million suns. A ...

The provisionally named S/2025 U1 is so small it had gone unnoticed by probes and telescopes for the past 40 years.

Sporting the world’s largest digital camera, the new telescope is poised to help solve some of the universe’s biggest mysteries.