The Royal Observatory in Greenwich has promised “universal access to see what is one of the greatest telescopes in Britain” ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun its decade-long survey to scan the entire night sky every three days. To do this, it ...

Earth’s turbulent atmosphere makes it hard to detect new planets from the ground. Astronomer Rebecca Jensen-Clem is working ...

Comets SWAN and Lemmon will both swing by Earth and appear bright in the sky near the end of October. Here’s how to see them.

Crews fought on Tuesday to defend homes and the famed Mount Wilson Observatory from California's biggest and most dangerous wildfire, standing their ground at a major highway between the flames and ...

Greenwich's Royal Observatory is improving access to its buildings and creating new educational and events spaces in a £77m ...

Recently, scientists discovered a number of new comets, two of which will be passing by Earth in October. Here's everything ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera captured an "array of stars that make up the dwarf galaxy Wolf–Lundmark ...

The startup Reflect Orbital aims to keep solar farms running at night by reflecting sunlight from space and has sparked ...

With no end in sight for the government shutdown, the last reserves of money are running out from Smithsonian Museums.