Look for the three stars that make up the distinctive formation of Orion's Belt — Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka — shining ...

Since Pluto was relegated to dwarf planet status, almost everyone has agreed that there are eight planets in our solar system ...

It was put on Webb to diagnose and measure any blur in its images. Even nanometres of distortion in Webb’s 18 hexagonal ...

NASA has started testing the Orion spacecraft that will take four astronauts on a voyage around the moon as part of the ...

By fitting its sunshield and solar panels, engineers have completed the construction of Plato, the European Space Agency's ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled a breathtaking cosmic landscape that looks more like a scene from fantasy than reality. What appears to be a glowing mountain peak shrouded in mist is ...

Learning how to use your camera's light meter will allow you to properly adjust your settings without the guesswork.

This compact and portable smart telescope provides an affordable way for beginners to get started with astroimaging.

For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from Earth, may actually be easier than finding a white cat in a snowstorm.

We’ve all seen spectacular pictures of space, and it’s easy to assume that’s how it looks to the naked eye through a nice telescope. But in most cases, that’s simply not true. Space is rather dark, so ...

His Rock Ferry observatory near Birkenhead was equipped with a telescope containing a 20" reflecting mirror made from glass-coated silver, mounted with a 7" refractor as a tracking scope, attached to ...