Astronomers are sounding alarm bells as the world's most precious sky-observing location faces a risk of being blinded by ...

The journey of astronomical telescopes began in the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei crafted his first refracting ...

The scientific community is warning about a 3,000-hectare power plant that is jeopardizing the darkness of the skies over the ...

Japan's government has been considering joining a U.S.-led space telescope initiative to search for Earth-like planets and ...

Astronomers are raising concerns about the impact of light pollution from a renewable energy project on the world’s most ...

On March 15, 2024, a space-based observatory detected bursts of low-energy X-rays from deep in the ancient universe, ...

That camera, called LSSTCam (the telescope was originally called the Large Scale Synoptic Telescope), has 21 times the field ...

The South African Astronomical Observatory in Sutherland is one of the world's leading sites for optical and infrared ...

CRACO, a powerful new telescope technology from Australia, is helping astronomers detect mysterious cosmic signals faster than ever. It has already led to several major discoveries, including fast ...

Details are emerging about the plant, whose proposed location in the Atacama Desert is concerning astronomers.