Whenever news of a rare celestial event makes the headlines - be it a passing comet, meteor shower or a parade of planets - it makes one wish for two things: a telescope and a pitch-black garden ...

Dark skies in rural areas offer unmatched visibility, perfect for spotting faint planets. ‘Jeff Bezos has built a moon’: How Blue Origin created lunar gravity without leaving Earth ‘NASA’s ...

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are all bright enough to be visible to the naked eye, while Uranus and Neptune require binoculars or a telescope to spot. In January and February ...

Credit: NAOJ The James Webb Space Telescope has provided groundbreaking insights into a new type of exoplanet, fundamentally different from those in our Solar System, by piercing through thick cloud ...

The primary objective of this spacewalk is to replace critical hardware and repair the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) X-ray telescope. Listen to Story Williams and Hague will ...

Video of the largest photomosaic ever assembled from Hubble Space Telescope observations. The camera pans along the Andromeda Galaxy's vast disk which is over 200,000 light-years across. (Credit: ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured photos of one of the earliest supernovas ever seen, with features appearing like grains and knots found in a cut of wood. "Once upon a time ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is known for looking deep into the universe with an unprecedented level precision and sensitivity. But its images aren't only scientifically useful — they're ...

With three spectacular cosmic events happening, January is the perfect time to pick up a telescope. We've rounded up the best telescopes for beginners, to suit a range of budgets. January is ...

An illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope as it orbits the sun in our solar system, 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: SA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez The James Webb Space ...

Researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian counterparts, to find that the ancient pulse, like a cosmic flashlight, had lit up never ...

Of all the mysteries that the massive James Webb Space Telescope has seen so far in the early universe, one of the strangest are objects that astronomers now call "little red dots." Like the ...