On 23 June 2025, the world will get a look at the first images from one of the most powerful telescopes ever built: the Vera ...

Chile is home to one of the most ambitious scientific projects on the planet: the construction of the world’s largest ...

Just how powerful is the world's most powerful telescope? Let's start with the human eye. The human eye has an angular resolution of about 1 arcminute. That's pretty impressive. Take a circle ...

“ENTs are different beasts,” study lead author and astronomer Jason Hinkle explained in an accompanying statement. “Not only ...

The James Webb space telescope's deepest view of a single target yet depicts spinning arcs of light that are galaxies from ...

The European Space Agency said Tuesday that the James Webb Space Telescope has captured its most detailed image of a single ...

Astronomers working with South Africa’s SKA telescope are pushing authorities to ensure that any licensing agreement with ...

The most powerful solar telescope in the world has recorded a major milestone atop an active volcano in Hawaii, capturing a detailed image of a cluster of sunspots with the telescope's new Visible ...

Astronomers discovered a new class of cosmic explosions known as "extreme nuclear transients" that are the most powerful ...

Astronomers have discovered a new kind of massive explosion in space—so powerful that they outshine anything we’ve ever seen ...