Latest Telescopes Stories
How An Underfunded Team Of Spanish Astronomers Could Help Solve The Mystery Of Dark Energy
Signals From the Void
By Linking Telescopes, Astronomers Make the Sharpest-Ever Observation of a Distant Object
Seen for the First Time: Starless Galaxies
New Telescope Optics Can Directly View Exoplanets By Hiding Interfering Starlight
NASA’s Black-Hole-Hunting NuSTAR Telescope Has Launched
NASA Adopts Two Spare Spy Telescopes, Each Maybe More Powerful Than Hubble
ALMA Telescope Peeks Through Centaurus A’s Swirling Gas Clouds
Contest to Host the World’s Largest Telescope Ends in A Draw
PopSci Q&A: NASA Just Gave You A Telescope. What Will You Look At First?
The World’s Biggest Digital Camera Begins Engineering Phase
Which Continent to Put the Largest Radio Telescope On? Why Not Share It
Scrunchable Space Sieves Could Work as Tiny Foldable Satellite-Borne Telescopes
Crunching the Big Bang With the Greatest Supercomputer Ever Built
Free To a Good Home: One Space Telescope, Still In Orbit
Pretty Space Pics: The Carina Nebula ‘Dramatically’ Captured in Infrared
Space Telescopes Paint A New View of Eagle Nebula
The Prettiest Space Pics From This Week’s Annual American Astronomical Society Meeting
X-Ray Telescope Will Balloon Into the Stratosphere To Look At Black Holes
Telescope Would Voyage to the Edge of the Solar System to Escape Zodiacal Light Pollution
A Global Astronomy Social Network To Let Amateurs Peep Through Robotic Telescopes
To Find Alien Cities, Look for City Lights on Distant Planets
Recording A Century of Night Skies Through A Scanner Darkly
Very Large Telescope Dances With the Stars
The Very Large Array Wants You To Rename It
ALMA, the World’s Largest Radio Telescope, Grabs Its First Images
Congress Preserves James Webb Telescope For Now, But At What Cost?
Brand-New Supernova Spotted Within Hours, Will Be the Most-Studied Star Explosion Ever
NASA’s Infrared Explorer Spots a Room-Temperature Brown Dwarf, the Coldest Star Ever Found
Herschel Telescope Finds Oxygen Molecules in Space
Advanced Optics That Let Telescopes See Deep Into Space Will Help Microscopes See Deep Inside Cells
Enceladus is Raining on Saturn, Altering the Planet’s Chemistry
Russian Space Telescope Lifts Off, Will Be Biggest Telescope Ever
House Subcommittee’s Budget Bill Puts Most Powerful Space Telescope on the Chopping Block
Herschel Telescope Spots a Star Spewing Powerful Water Jets into Interstellar Space
Inside FAST, Soon to be the World’s Biggest and Baddest Radio Telescope
VLT Survey Telescope, the Biggest Visible-Spectrum Telescope in the World, Snaps its First Images
This Time Lapse Video of the Very Large Telescope At Work is the Coolest Thing You’ll See Today
Galaxy Closeup Reveals Best-Ever Snapshot of Black Hole Jets
SETI Turns Radio Telescopes Toward Kepler Candidate Planets, Listening for Signs of Life
Crab Nebula Emits Largest Gamma Ray Burst Ever Seen, Puzzles Astronomers
Spitzer Telescope Sees Busy Galactic Center In a New Light
New ESO Image Captures Baby Stars Causing Chaos in the Nursery
Backyard Astronomer Nabs Stupendous Sun Photo
Astronomers May Have Spotted Distant Baby Planet’s Birth, A Cosmic First
New-Found Cornucopia of Exoplanets More Than Doubles the Current Cosmic Census
To Improve Astronomic Measurements, Scientists Want To Launch A Light Bulb Into Space
ESO’s “Hidden Treasures” Astrophotography Contest Shows Incredibly Talented Amateurs
Video: NASA Planet Hunters Announce Smallest Exoplanet Ever Found, Just 560 Light Years Away
Worldwide Telescope Network WIll Allow Global Full-Sky Observations of Astrophysical Events as they Unfold
Blurry Nebula Image Marks Success for Flying Telescope, NASA Says
James Webb Telescope Project Project Reviewed and Reorganized In Wake of Massive Cost Overruns
Astronomers Find Massive, Previously Undetected Gamma Radiation Bubbles Adorning the Milky Way
Hubble Glimpses the Most Distant Object Ever Seen, A Galaxy 13 Billion Light Years Away
New Space Telescope Relies on Never-Before-Manufactured Material; No Problem, Says NASA
1.4-Gigapixel Telescope Spots Its First Dangerous Asteroid, Hurtling Toward Earth
The ESO Turns Its Massive Laser Beam on the Heavens (for Science)
Fundamental Physics Laws Change Depending on When and Where You Are, New Study Says
Big Bear Solar Observatory Snaps the Most Detailed Pic of a Sunspot Ever
Pair of Telescopes Captures Supermassive Black Hole Eruption
What’s On Tap For the Next Ten Years of Astronomy? Find Exo-Earths and Figure Out Dark Energy
VISTA Telescope Reveals Tarantula Nebula in Brilliant Detail
New Redshift-Scanning Technique Could Create Map of the Universe with 500 Times More Detail
Very Large Telescope Finds Very Tiny Black Hole Blowing Most Massive Fiery Space Bubble