Jacob Payne, a graduate student and research assistant at the University of Iowa’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, landed a NASA grant to build a small X-ray telescope that can assist with deep ...

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

A Baltimore County elementary school student made threats to students and staff, leaving parents worried about how they're going to keep their own kids safe. Baltimore County Public Schools are ...

In the 30 years since the discovery of 51 Pegasi b, more than 6,000 planets outside our Solar System have been catalogued. Two modern-day explorers explain how.

For astrophysicist Mansi Kasliwal, her appointment to the historic Palomar Observatory as the new director was a full-circle moment. The California Institute of Technology announced her new position ...

While I enjoy stargazing as much as the next person, I also love to know how things work – to get under the hood. French smart telescope pioneer Vaonis helps quench my thirst with a special edition of ...

Artist Ashley Zelinskie is "Wandering through Time and Space”' with ESA's Webb team. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to deliver awe-inspiring views of the cosmos and the art world has ...

In May 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were testing how radio waves bounced off balloon satellites developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories. But they kept getting an unpleasant hissing noise, in ...

Using the observatory’s powerful telescopes — a Dwarf 3 and SeeStar S50 — Astronomy Club students will choose their own celestial targets, capture raw data and produce their own astronomical ...

When the famous Coggia's Comet flashed across the sky in 1874, a Missouri astronomer named Carr Waller Pritchett made a wish. A year later, that wish came true. Pritchett was hoping for the right ...