Giant ground-based reflector telescopes do much of astronomy's heavy lifting, although the U.S.'s largest in Hawaii is not ...

A team that included University of Arizona astronomers captured the infrared image of the supermassive black hole using a Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer.

Leo P, a tiny galaxy, stopped making stars after the universe’s reionization. Unlike most galaxies, it restarted billions of ...

Get ready for lift off when the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences hosts Astronomy Days, Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 1-2, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Go on a celestial ...

Astronomers compile a large sample of an unusual class of objects in an effort to connect the dots to the early universe.

Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

European Southern Observatory Director General Xavier Barcons told Space.com that astronomers expect the project to brighten the sky by up to 10 percent around the observatory.

The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world's largest visible- and infrared-light ...

Ever since NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was launched, it’s been revealing more about the universe than even most ...

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

All these questions and more will be answered at Hands-on Astronomy, a free science event for astronomers young and old on ...