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

In February 1995, a small research organization known as the SETI Institute launched what was then the most comprehensive ...

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 ...

It may here be remarked that the ordinary terrestrial telescope with erecting eyepiece is nothing more than an object-glass, and a microscope, for an erecting eyepiece is nothing more than a ...

The possibility of the asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting our planet might not be ruled out until 2028, raising the prospect we’ll ...

A recently discovered, sizable asteroid may come within striking distance of Earth in less than eight years. But although the ...