With the 2012 holiday season coming into its "home stretch," many people may be seriously considering the purchase of a telescope. You've seen telescope ads in newspapers, junk mail catalogues and on ...

— -- As humans, we're limited by what we can see with the naked eye. While we're biologically suited to looking at things up close, our eyes can't zoom in to take a look at far-away objects. But ...

It's the last clearly observed supernova in the Milky Way, Gassel said.

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 ...

The night sky has long sparked wonder and curiosity. Early civilizations studied the stars and tracked celestial events, ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope is not circling our planet the way most people imagine a satellite does. Instead, NASA parked ...

Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren’t any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA launched Tuesday night in search of answers to simmering questions about how ...

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T he Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has been pivotal to progress in the last three decades of astronomy and cosmology.