Straight to the dome.

Space rarely gives up its secrets easily. For instance, what looks like a single ...

How big would a telescope need to be to see Earth’s dinosaurs from 66 million light-years away? Think big—and then think ...

Zhuang Mingyang, a 10-year-old boy from Guangdong Province, has amazed Chinese social media users after building a working ...

How space telescopes capture distant galaxies using infrared imaging, precision optics, and astronomy technology beyond Earth's atmosphere.

NASA is designing the Habitable Worlds Observatory — a telescope built not just to look, but to scan other planets for signs of life. Positioned at the Earth–Sun L2 point, it will use a segmented ...

Since it turned on, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of mysterious red blobs in space. The so-called Little ...

Officials canceled an energy project that put one of the world’s darkest astronomy sites at risk of increased light pollution and vibration.

Northeastern Wisconsin colleges are responding to enrollment declines with new programs, affordability and flexible options.

I imagine most gamers who approach Nintendo’s new $100 Virtual Boy peripheral will be as skeptical as my brother. I loaded up the games for him, plugged the Switch 2 into the Virtual Boy’s awaiting ...

Looking through the atmosphere is like looking through a piece of old stained glass. The glass has defects that distort the image. The atmosphere also has defects that distort the image, but the ...