NASA's top candidate for its still-open administrator position has been thrown under the bus by the Trump administration. As ...

Imagine spotting a fawn far off or, better yet, a robin’s nest high up in a tree because you have a close-up view in the palm ...

Moved to Boston, where he took a job appraising buildings for an insurance company. Became so fascinated with the buildings’ designs that he decided he would become an architect. Enrolled at the ...

Whether you're a nature lover, hiker, hunter, or stargazer, having the right optical gear can make or break your outdoor ...

Born of x-ray astronomy, a novel handheld gamma-optical camera stands at the nexus of medical and industrial imaging. By ...

Stargazing begins by simply looking up, but these gadgets go a long way in unlocking the mysteries of the night sky. Get more ...

News was taken on a special tour of the Green Bank Telescope, the largest fullY-steerable radio telescope in the world.

Naturally, the aurora on our solar system's largest planet is hundreds of times brighter and more energetic than our own Northern lights.

A stunning new image sent back from the world's most expensive space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, shows the moment two galaxies are about to collide.

A cometary globule, known as “God’s Hand,” has been captured by the Dark Energy Camera on NSF’s Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope. Credit: Images and videos: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/N. Bartmann Image ...

Reasonably priced and easy to use, this is a great beginner's telescope suitable for teens wanting to try their hand at astronomy.

The core of this telescope is its large parabolic primary mirror, which was painstakingly hand-ground and shaped in Kolkata — an extraordinary feat of optical engineering,” Sudipta Sasmal ...