Over the quarter century I’ve been writing this column, I've been flabbergasted by the advances in telescopes for backyard ...

The Williams College trustees plan to preserve the Hopkins Observatory, built in 1836, for its historical value and to reactivate it as a full-scale astronomical ...

In astrophotography, I would say 70% is technique and 30% is the equipment. I spent a lot of time learning the technique behind those incredible images of the galaxies, Zubuyer says ...

A compound lens forged by two galaxies is helping astronomers get a bead on the Hubble Constant and dark energy.

The James Webb telescope has spotted three gigantic "red monster" galaxies that were spawned soon after the Big Bang. They're ...

The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...

Not only that, but the second lens also magnifies the first – though not very bright, it can be seen in the images collected ...

The galaxies, each as vast as the Milky Way, are baffling because most scientific models for galaxy evolution suggest ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is one giant step closer to unlocking the mysteries of the universe. The mission has ...

Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...

If another gravity theory is correct, "then the broader implications are enormous," astrophysicist Stacy McGaugh told ...