NASA's Hubble Telescope captured the rare phenomenon of a comet breaking apart, catching scientists off guard until they saw ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare cosmic moment: a comet breaking apart in real time.

How telescope magnifications work and why eyepieces are the best upgrade for achieving your stargazing goals. When you ...

A NASA telescope has accidentally captured a stunning moment that astronomers thought that they would never see ...

Construction has begun on a new telescope designed to map one of the universe’s ...

They’re struggling to connect the dots. Scientists are baffled over mysterious dots captured by the James Webb Space Telescope — with some suggesting they could be giant stars from the origins of the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope reveals active volcanoes on Io in unprecedented detail thanks to an innovative technique.

These three exoplanets are among the least dense ever found, and all attempts to probe their atmospheres have been blocked by ...

Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We'll let other publications offer you ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A dramatic rise in the number of internet satellites ...

The Harlan J. Smith Scholars program involves astronomy undergraduates in observing on a major telescope at McDonald Observatory.

Light is the fastest phenomenon in the universe, clocking in at just under 300,000 kilometers per second. The telescopes that observe that light, from radio waves to gamma rays, are built at rather ...