The world's most powerful telescopes, including the James Webb Space Telescope and FAST, are revolutionizing our ...

Advances in Very High Energy Astrophysics summarises the progress made by the third generation of imaging atmospheric ...

A dramatic cosmic event, a rare dwarf nova that suddenly brightened by a factor of 2,500, has been discovered with the help ...

La Palma, not to be confused with the Majorcan capital Palma, is a small island with forested landscapes, narrow cobbled ...

A cataclysmic variable star was found as part of a project using two telescopes from opposite sides of the world.

Citizen scientists using the Kilonova Seekers platform spotted a stellar flash 2,500 times brighter than before, allowing ...

On August 1, 2014, workers began construction of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) perched atop Cerro Pachón in Chile’s Atacama Desert. Fast forward a decade later, and the LSST—now ...

The exoplanet, a planet beyond our solar system, has been dubbed TWA 7b after NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured evidence of it.

The telescope should detect killer asteroids and may even find the ninth planet in our solar system.

It is possible to steal the optics from another telescope or, of course, buy new. You probably don’t want to grind your own mirrors, although good on you if you do!

As the Vera C. Rubin Observatory surveys the night sky, astrophysicists expect to unlock the secrets of dark matter, dark energy and cosmic phenomena that go “bang!” ...