The air is cool, the high desert is nearly completely silent, and the Milky Way stretches like glitter across the sky ...

Their mission is to "combat light pollution through education ... from snowshoeing under the stars to telescope sessions at local breweries. Embracing these areas of dark skies showcases both ...

A powerful new instrument added to the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope promises to maximize the information gleaned from the ...

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world's largest solar telescope, can see the sun in unprecedented detail. Here is ...

Just how powerful is the world's most powerful telescope? Let's start with the human eye. The human eye has an angular resolution of about 1 arcminute. That's pretty impressive. Take a circle ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is a masterwork of engineering ... STIS can pick up in ultraviolet wavelengths through optical to near-infrared light. The astronauts also managed to repair STIS ...

"As enormous as this dusty pillar is, it's just one small piece of the greater Eagle Nebula." A breathtaking new image of the famous Eagle Nebula captures a towering pillar of gas and dust ...

The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope is literally parked 1 million ... “It’s just not viable if these cuts go through anywhere near what’s proposed. There is no bare-bones mode to ...

Outside a Vietnamese monkey breeding farm, crates known to be used by smugglers were seen stacked up, suggesting wild-caught monkeys are being laundered through farms at scale. Image supplied by ...

However, we do see several blue and white stars shining through. The Crab Nebula is about as famous as a space cloud can get—it's been imaged by most telescopes, including Webb. This image shows ...