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

On a clear spring evening in Michigan, the stars aligned — just not in the way Upfront Ventures partner Nick Kim expected. He ...

Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...

Webb's fiery image is an edge-on protoplanetary disc, known as HH 30, around a newly formed star that is hidden by the dark ...

NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope has captured grains the size of a single bacterium that'll likely transform into planets.

The JWST's infrared capabilities enable it to peer deeper and into more dust-obscured parts of the early universe than other telescopes. The researchers' next steps will be to make further ...

The Bullseye galaxy earned its nickname thanks to its wild number of rings. A smaller galaxy shot through its heart 50 ...

A Dobsonian telescope can be put together fairly quickly sometimes using off-the-shelf parts from IKEA.

Smart telescopes are not new ... OnStep is designed to be simple, low cost and buildable from off the shelf parts. It’s a great looking project that has the basics mostly sorted, but which ...

The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world's largest visible- and infrared-light telescope — is currently under development on the Cerro Armazones mountain ...

The student, named Ma Junhe, dreamed of exploring the moon from a young age. After learning about telescope construction during a physics practical class, he decided to construct his own astronomical ...