We now have direct images of two supermassive black holes: M87* and Sag A*. The fact that we can capture such images is ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

Hoping to see deeper into the universe, scientists and engineers are designing some of the largest and weirdest telescopes ...

NASA said that while the mystery of the Circinus galaxy’s excess emissions has been solved, there are billions of black holes ...

The 21st century is featuring a second space age that is increasingly private.

Both NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory caught these two galaxies in a close embrace.

After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A ...

Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) instruments, the U.S.

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SpectrUM recently gained a $250,000 grant from NASA to place telescopes in the fall of this year in libraries across the state of Montana.

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground observatories.