Astronomers from India have made an intriguing discovery in a unique tri-star solar system located 489 light years from Earth ...

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The telescope and its magnifying power changed astronomy forever. Galileo's telescope allowed him to magnify the planets, just points of light to the unaided eye, into bright discs covered in ...

Nestled in the charming town of Williams Bay, Wisconsin, sits a behemoth of astronomical wonder that’s been making jaws drop ...

Northwestern University is officially a founding partner of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), an enormous ground-based ...

In recent years, many amateur astronomers have added a new item to their toolkit: a smartphone. Here are one observer's ...

In this photo, optical engineer Bente Eegholm inspects the surface of the primary mirror for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. This 7.9-foot (2.4-meter) mirror is a major component of the ...

A new theory explains how dozens of mysterious planet pairs discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope, dubbed "JuMBOs," ...

New research reveals a fourth planet in the Kepler-51 system, altering our understanding of this unique system with three ...

The idea of BHEX is to use a space-based telescope to collect even more detailed information from black holes, as there is ...