Crews at the Guyanese Space Center recently "unboxed" the James Webb Space Telescope and are now getting it ready for…
If you're looking for doomsday, you can forget about asteroid Apophis. The latest radar observations have effectively ruled out any…
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is getting closer and closer to its launch date in 2025. This Hubble-class wide-field…
In the vein of “go big or go home,” the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has launched a stunning new website…
The National Science Foundation released two different videos today showing the collapse of the Arecibo Observatory, as it happened on…
Early this morning, the 900-ton instrument platform suspended above the Arecibo Observatory collapsed and crashed down on the iconic telescope’s…
Everyone loves lasers. And the only thing better than a bunch of lasers is a bunch of lasers on one…
Ever wonder how modern astronomical observatories take such clear images of distant objects? Advances in mirror design have allowed for…
Modern astronomical telescopes are extraordinarly powerful. And we keep making them more powerful. With telescopes like the Extremely Large Telescope…
Thanks to the heroic efforts of firefighters, the Mt. Wilson Observatory is now safe from the California wildfires raging through…