The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world's largest visible- and infrared-light ...
ESO estimates the complex will leak as much light pollution as a city with a population of about 20,000. Parts of the ...
Astronomers are raising concerns about the impact of light pollution from a renewable energy project on the world’s most ...
The lanes and clouds of dust in the star-forming Orion Nebula (M42) reveal a dark dimension to this familiar object.
Six planets will be in alignment this weekend, with four of them shining bright in one sweeping view. What to know about the ...
Find the best telescopes to unlock the wonders of the night sky and view lunar occultations, celestial conjunctions and planetary parades in January. "There are telescopes tailored to all sorts of ...
Alignments of five or more planets are rare—there will be two more featuring five or more planets this year, but after that ...
The instrument is the Prime Focus Spectrograph, and it is one of the flagship instruments in the next era of the Subaru ...
A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...
Astronomers have captured the most detailed infrared images yet of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), using the Large ...
The Red Planet reaches its best position all year this week on January 15. Here’s how and when to get out and see it.
Venus and Saturn will appear extraordinarily close together in the night sky overnight on Jan. 17 during a celestial event ...