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 ...

Radio astronomy opened up the universe for scientists. They could map new elements across galaxies and also search for ...

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

A comet older than our Solar System is within backyard astronomers’ reach. Comet 3I/ATLAS, a rare interstellar visitor discovered in July 2025 by the NASA-funded ATLAS survey in Chile, has emerged ...

Contrary to claims that 3I/ATLAS is no longer from Earth, space experts claim that the Manhattan-sized comet can now be ...

Two weeks ago, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was at conjunction, on the opposite side of the Sun with respect to Earth. Last week, it reached perihelion, the closest point it would ever get to the Sun.

A small piece of metal engineered in Australia helped sharpen the James Webb telescope's vision from a million miles away.

In a significant breakthrough, researchers have harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to rectify the optical ...

California-based startup Reflect Orbital aims to build a swarm of 4,000 giant mirrors in low Earth orbit to "sell sunlight" to customers at night. Experts warn that the mirrors could mess with ...

Bengaluru: Around 18 individuals and institutions have so far borrowed telescopes and binoculars from the Jawaharlal Nehru ...

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