For practically as long as NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has circled Earth, astronomers have wanted to use it to see a comet as it's breaking apart. Many researchers have proposed ...

In a stroke of luck, astronomers saw the comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) break into four or five fragments in November after it passed close to the sun.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Optical Telescope Element Pathfinder and Parker Solar Probe models are now on permanent display at the Smithsonian’s Udvar-Hazy Center, providing insight into testing ...

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum welcomes two new acquisitions to the collection—the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) Pathfinder and Parker Solar Probe model. The Pathfinder is a ...

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 ...

The possibility that a huge space rock — once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed — could hit the moon now appears to ...

Optical Surfaces Ltd is an established supplier of Ritchey-Chrétien (RC) telescope optics for high precision surveillance applications. A Ritchey-Chrétien telescope system. Image Credit: Optical ...

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

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.

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