Lazuli’s design features a 3.1-meter mirror, which would make it larger than NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (but smaller than ...

Astronomers have revealed a new type of cosmic object called Cloud-9 — a dim, starless gas cloud anchored by a massive dark ...

24P/Schaumasse will make its closest pass of the sun on Jan. 8, according to In-the-sky, when it will pass 109.7 million ...

A new tablet doesn't have to break the bank, and right now at Amazon you can get the like-new Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet for ...

On Wednesday evening, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, announced a major investment in not just one ...

The New Year of 2026 began at the stroke of midnight today, and four minutes later the brightest star in the sky, Sirius in ...

Sensitive equipment and historical artifacts — including the Mills spectrograph used in the observatory’s early days to ...

If you have access to an 8-inch or larger telescope, look in the northern part of the constellation Andromeda the Princessfor ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed visitor from deep space, is making a close approach. It requires a telescope (6 inches or larger) for observation—binoculars and the naked eye won't suffice.

Day 8 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: Sculpted by Stellar Winds. NGC 346 is a young star cluster about 200,000 light-years away, in the Small Magellanic Cloud. This image combines Hubble ...

A celestial treat awaited Long Islanders this week, as the Leonid meteor shower — a mid-November annual spectacle powered by debris igniting as it collided with our atmosphere — reached its peak.

A comet, dubbed C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), spectacularly broke apart into three huge chunks — and anybody with an eight-inch telescope or bigger can catch the resulting fireworks show for the next several ...