It proved the Andromeda Nebula is immensely distant from Earth, demonstrating that the Milky Way is not the whole universe, ...

A year of discovery awaits, with missions poised to reveal new insights about our home planet, solar system, galaxy, and ...

I am constantly amazed by the new things I’m learning about the world, the universe and everything, and the new things scientists are discovering every day. How everybody isn’t in ...

The telescope’s massive digital camera was built to take a lot of photos of the sky, in quick succession, for a very long ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Amy Nordrum of the MIT Technology Review about the magazine's list of breakthrough technologies for 2025.

The revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope and next-gen radio telescopes are probing what’s known as the epoch of ...

Maybe you received a telescope during the holiday season, or perhaps you’ve gifted yourself with a scope. I want you to get ...

Maybe you received a telescope during the holiday season, or perhaps you’ve gifted yourself a scope. I want you to get as ...

working to reveal our Galaxy’s present-day structure and unravel its evolutionary history. The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission to map the position and motion of around 1.8 billion stars has ...

In 2025, keep an eye on the Southern Cross (known as Crux to astronomers) and Sagittarius (the archer). The Southern Cross is ...

The first quarter moon on January 6. The waxing gibbous moon passes just north of Jupiter in the northeast. The big action is ...

New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...