The Vera Rubin Observatory just shared its first light and the results are wild. With a 3.2-gigapixel camera (LSST), Rubin can capture a field of view equal to ~40 full Moons per shot, streaming ~20 ...

We’ve all looked up at the night sky and wondered what those lights really look like up close. Stars, planets, the craters on the moon – they’re all up there, waiting to be explored but telescopes ...

Shklovsky’s article soon expanded into a widely popular book called “ Universe, Life, Intelligence ,” published in 1962. That same year, the USSR’s Academy of Sciences sent its first radio message in ...

A ‘selfie’ taken during Webb’s testing on Earth. Ball Aerospace After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the ...

The comet will be visible for anyone with a telescope or very good binoculars in the hours before ... If you’re unsure where ...

The observatory’s proximity to Kirkwood Avenue, a hotspot for IU students, helps attract people outside of the astronomy ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

Here's where Comet 3I/ATLAS, Lemmon and SWAN are in the Halloween sky.

This is the first time the novel imaging technique has been applied to telescopes. For the first time, astronomers have ...

Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

The wavelengths of radio light are so large that you can't capture a high-resolution image with a single dish. To capture an ...

Then, head out about 90 minutes after with a pair of binoculars or a telescope ... horizon. Use a stargazing app, like ...