Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

As reported by Science, the telescope was announced at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society this week and could be ...

A NASA space telescope on a mission to map millions of galaxies has turned on its detectors for the first time, capturing images of tens of thousands of stars and galaxies. The SPHEREx, which is short ...

The world's first telescope, crafted in 1608 by the Dutch eyeglass maker Hans Lippershey, led to stunning technologies that would later revolutionize our understanding of the universe. While his ...

A newly discovered interstellar comet is racing through our solar system, and the first telescope to capture it may have been the newly commissioned Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The comet, ...