The stunning comet C/2024 G3 lights up the sunset sky over Chile's Very Large Telescope in this spectacular photo.

The Cherenkov Telescope Array just got a major boost for distributing its data, a development that will expedite scientific discovery using the observatory.

Best of all, you don't even need a telescope or any special equipment to see our solar system in its full glory. This rare alignment won't happen again until 2040 - so you don't want to miss it.

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are all bright enough to be visible to the naked eye, while Uranus and Neptune require binoculars or a telescope to spot. In January and February 2025 ...

And because the entertainment industry’s favorite idea these days is to bring back popular brands by any means necessary, last night brought with it the debut of Suits LA on USA’s sister ...

A new kind of space telescope has embarked on a two-year mission to create four complete maps of the entire celestial sky that will catalog the origins of the universe and seek out the ingredients ...

The James Webb Space Telescope was late to launch, but the observatory is making up for lost time. After several years of operation, Webb has captured some truly stunning cosmic vistas ...

A new James Webb Space Telescope study finds that Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's central black hole, constantly emits light from its swirling accretion disk. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf ...

STARGAZING is shooting to the top of our bucket lists for 2025. According to Booking.com, 62 per cent of travellers are seeking “night-time-focused travel destinations”. There are some gorgeous ...

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...

The telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) tracked the black hole for a total of 48 hours over the course of a year, observing five to six large flares per day with smaller sub-flares in between.

Several flaring hot spots that resemble solar flares, but on a more energetic scale, are seen in the disk. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected both bright flares and fainter flickers coming ...