Bill Murphy became interested in the night sky as a kid in the 1960s, as man was attempting to land on the moon.

So, it came as a shock to many people when, in 1781, it was announced that a seventh planet, the first to be discovered since ...

Dieter Moeller invested millions in high-tech telescopes and an observatory to house them in Adams County. Now, he's ready to share it all with astronomy lovers like him.

Using the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT), an international team of astronomers have performed long-term photometric observations of a luminous blazar known as Ton 599. Results of the observations ...

Typically incorporating primary and secondary hyperbolic mirrors – RC designs offer compactness, a good field of view and are free of optical errors and spherical aberrations inherent with traditional ...

URUMQI, March 6 (Xinhua) — Growing up in a Kazakh family in northwest China, Guljaina Kazezkhan often spent her childhood ...

A company wants to brighten the night sky by reflecting sunlight onto Earth using mirrors placed in orbit. Not a one-off stunt, but a full system desi.

It is located about 25 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major.

The first installment in a series looking at the history and pending redevelopment of the Warner & Swasey Building.

Astronomers using the MeerKAT telescope discovered a hydroxyl megamaser in a galactic merger 8 billion light-years away, amplified by gravitational lensing and operating at radio wavelengths.