Stunning photos show bright comet lighting up the dark skies above ESO'sParanal Observatory, future home of the world's ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

While it is already dimming after a close encounter with the sun, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) – also called the Great Comet of ...

A: The Extremely Large Telescope is planned to be one of the most capable astronomical observatories ever assembled. The telescope, currently about 60% complete, is intended to search for evidence ...

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

Observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope and the VLT have revealed jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a belching protostar in its infancy. By studying the dust grains whirling around ...

Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the ...

A stronomers using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile have imaged a filament of the ...