Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...

An upgrade to one of Australia's most capable radio telescopes is allowing astronomers to hunt for fast radio bursts (FRBs) ...

Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the ...

Christmas is a great time to look for a telescope for your budding amateur astronomer. But there are some things to keep in ...

I was completely thrown for a loop. I thought I was hallucinating for a second,’ a Jewish student enrolled in the class tells ...

The journey of astronomical telescopes began in the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei crafted his first refracting ...

Recent science updates include Boom Supersonic's XB-1 breaking the sound barrier, progress on the Extremely Large Telescope ...

Astronomers warn that proposed changes to the space observatory's operational budget could decrease the amount of ...

The MeerKAT telescope is located in the Karoo region of South Africa, is made up of 64 radio dishes and is operated and ...

European Southern Observatory Director General Xavier Barcons told Space.com that astronomers expect the project to brighten ...

Astronomers are raising concerns about the impact of light pollution from a renewable energy project on the world’s most ...

The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) will be loaded onto a transatlantic shipping vessel in Antwerp, Belgium, at the end of January for a month-long voyage by sea to its home: Chile, just ...