Astronomers have constructed telescopes of every kind - massive observatories designed to pick up faint traces of light ...

The Indiana Audubon Society and Indiana Land Protection Alliance will offer free October Big Day birding hikes on Saturday, ...

High in the Chilean desert, the Extremely Large Telescope is taking shape. It promises sharper views of space than we've ever seen — but will Australian astronomers be able to use it?

And being a specialist and niche tool even for us civilians, inevitably comes with an expectedly large price tag, compared with ordinary optical, non-battery-powered binoculars. Still, with its ...

For those of us who lack fancy telescopes, the best way to see the second moon before it departs Earth’s orbit is by heading ...

Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS reaches its perihelion on Friday. This marks its closest pass by our sun in its 80,000 year-long orbit. It is expected that the comet will be just bright enough to ...

We put optical observatories on tops of high mountains to get them above the clouds and away from our light pollution.

A tremendous number of firearms were obtained by American GIs in every theater of World War II, despite discouragement from U ...

PT5 "mini-moon" asteroid will soon be in Earth's orbit. Here's everything you need to know about this celestial event.

I grew up in South Africa and still remember the thrill of my first safari, nestled in an open-top Land Rover, enthusiastically seeking out the animals I had only seen on TV or glimpsed in books, each ...

China is expanding FAST, the world's largest radio telescope, with 24 new telescopes. This upgrade will significantly boost its power.

WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - The first rocky planet ever spotted orbiting a burned out star called a white dwarf offers a ...