Scientists are reflecting on lessons learned with the completion of removal this summer of the Caltech telescope from the ...

Discover the wonders of telescopes, from their design to their limits, and the advanced technology behind modern astronomical ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope will be one of the world's most advance ground-based telescopes once it is completed, but for now the challenge is to turn the finalized design for it's rotating enclosure ...

Jupiter" exoplanet called 2M1207b, precisely 20 years ago this week. This was the first direct visual confirmation of a world ...

Thus far, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has used strategies based on classical science—listening for ...

A new catalog providing information on millions of distant galaxies, which determines their distances with unprecedented ...

The Gemini South telescope in Chile has been used by astronomers to detect a planet being devoured by its dying host star, a ...

A star’s surface temperature can be used to determine the star’s luminosity and chemical composition. At best, a star’s exact ...

Astronomers have now seen and captured pictures of another star bubbling gas on its surface. The star, R Doradus, is a red giant, with a diameter about 350 times larger than the sun's. This puffy star ...

Using the Subaru Telescope, astronomers have identified previously unknown celestial bodies in the outer Solar System, ...