The Cincinnati Public Library teamed up with astronomer Dean Regas to let patrons check out telescopes. The popular program ...

Discoveries of molecules in space that suggest extraterrestrial life are exciting, but they need to be taken with a grain of ...

For the first time, scientists have used Earth-based telescopes to look back over 13 billion years to see how the first stars in the universe affect light emitted from the Big Bang. Using telescopes ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope to hunt for an Earth‑Moon twin in the TOI‑700 system hit a roadblock when the ...

DwarfLab has a new option for stargazers who love using their mobile devices, as the Dwarf Mini Smart Telescope is out on the ...

Go outside right now. What’s the farthest thing you can see? A tree? A bird? What about the Moon? It’s 250,000 miles away. The Sun is 400 times farther than that, at nearly 100 million miles (but ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of these is whether Earth is the only place that harbors life. Subscribe to ...

Rochester Institute of Technology astrophysicist Jeyhan Kartaltepe will be one of the first scientists to use NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope soon after it launches in spring 2019. The Webb ...

A NASA team using the Hubble Space Telescope found an object in space never recorded before, nicknamed “Cloud-9.” Cloud-9 is a starless, gas-rich, dark-matter cloud considered a “relic” or remnant of ...