As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

When we visited Yerkes Observatory in 2021, it was closed and faced a daunting road back, yet its director had big plans. It ...

Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy, astronomers reported Monday. The halo, known as an Einstein ring, ...

You may have heard of the Very Large Telescope, but did you know it can function as a massive 200-meter-wide virtual telescope? Or that it outperforms many newer telescopes with its sheer scientific ...

ALBAWABA - Egypt recently witnessed an interesting phenomenon, when Al-Sharqia Governorate locals noticed a strange set of lights traveling across the c ...

A rare astronomical event will see seven planets align in the night sky on 28 February, marking the last such occurrence for ...

We asked an astronomer what you can see from London in the night sky this month – and one of them is incredibly rare.

While it is already dimming after a close encounter with the sun, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) – also called the Great Comet of ...

Like a celestial parade across the cosmos, five bright planets are lighting up the night sky and visible with the naked eye ...

The self-made world-class astronomer and community houses manager talks to PJ TAYLOR about her amazing galactic journey.

Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes ...