The piece is a work of enormous scope and forcefulness that reaches, by some pivot of a lens, an intimacy that surprises.

Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. October 17: Catch open cluster M34 Jupiter stands ...

Despite its astonishing success, JWST has a flaw that made its observations on some targets borderline unusable, but PhD ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, October 17The Summer Triangle is now sinking in the west late ...

We previously covered such “gravity telescopes” with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (KAGRA). These early 2 nd generation of ...

After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA's US$10 ...

Starfront Observatories allows amateur astronomers to rent a spot for their telescopes and photograph the cosmos over a ...

Scientists imaged the heart of the OJ 287 galaxy, uncovering a curved plasma jet around what appears to be two merging ...

New research suggests that dark matter may once again hold the key to one of astronomy’s enduring mysteries: the excess of ...

You’ve got a laser cutter. You’ve got a 3D printer. What do you make? [Ayushmaan45] suggests a telescope. The modest instrument isn’t going to do serious astronomy with only 8X ...

The International Astronomical Union recognizes 88 constellations; of those, 11 are men and three are women. Some, like ...

The month is packed with skywatching highlights—including two galaxies visible to the naked eye and a rare glimpse of the innermost planet. A cormorant crosses the face of the full moon in ...