The journey of astronomical telescopes began in the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei crafted his first refracting ...

We are working our way through some of the astronomical objects in the constellation Orion. Of all of them, my proudest ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

Astronomers have completed a stunning massive photomosaic of our closest celestial neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, comprised ...

Hubble Space Telescope images of Jupiter have been "photo-mapped onto a sphere," and animated into a full rotation, according to ESA/NASA. Credit: Space.com | NASA, ESA, J. DePasquale (STScI), A. Simo ...

Fast radio bursts are mysterious and brief flashes of radio emissions that were thought to be produced by magnetars, highly ...

Typically, summer internships are about gaining work experience and networking. But for Midshipman Olivia Rae Achenbach, her ...

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

This rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.

BAE Systems built both the spacecraft bus and telescope for the observatory, in addition to leading spacecraft integration ...