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

On a mountaintop in northern Chile, the world’s largest digital camera is preparing to power up. Its mission is simple yet ambitious — to photograph the entire night sky in extreme detail and unlock ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured a colorful portrait of a nearby stellar cradle, revealing a wealth of insights about ...

The new James Webb Space Telescope's image of the Pillars of Creation, released July 11, sparked new interest in the development of space technology from the public, according to BYU physics and ...

More than 100 years ago, astronomer George Ellery Hale brought our two Pasadena institutions together to build what was then the largest optical telescope in the world. The Mt. Wilson Observatory ...

"JWST was launched on Christmas day, and then was a present that took six months to unwrap," said Jane Rigby, an astronomer at NASA and the Operations Project Scientist. The Pillars of Creation were ...

Changing your name is not a decision to be taken lightly. So when two of the most powerful and revolutionary upcoming astronomical observatories were renamed, people took notice. Say goodbye to the ...

It is the colours of a sunset that inspire Joseph Anderson, an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in the high Atacama desert, in northern Chile. “They start off very blue and ...

On October 11, 2025, graduate students from the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI) carried out hands-on ...

After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A couple more test flights, and SpaceX plans to launch it into orbit.

Chinese researchers have braved the cold and harsh environment of Antarctica in order to get a unique view of star formation ...

A bold new era in astronomy is on the horizon. By 2029, Schmidt Sciences, the philanthropic foundation founded by former ...