Thinking about purchasing a telescope for a child or grandchild? The Oil Region Astronomical Society (ORAS) will offer a free presentation Wednesday, Oct. 7, designed to help ...

Proposals are submitted annually by scientists who wish to use these facilities, and are reviewed by the Telescope Allocation Committee.

Follow the foot traffic. Sidewalk astronomers often set up at street fairs, outdoor events, nightlife hotspots, or by any venue where a lot of people tend to pass by. If you want to set up at an event ...

NASA will move ahead with a new space telescope to see the cold, dusty universe far more sharply than any before it, chasing ...

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope has demonstrated remarkable pointing stability and given its powerful planet-imaging coronagraph its first look at the cosmos. The telescope can already stay locked on a ...

Look up at the night sky with your naked eye and it may seem like it rarely changes. Yet the universe is in constant flux.

Astronomers have cataloged billions of stars and hundreds of billions of galaxies. We have found thousands of planets ...

Series of in-flight problems meant Link, a ‘commercial space robot’, could not salvage the Nasa observatory A spacecraft that was launched in July on a mission to rescue a decaying Nasa space ...

The first in a new class of space telescopes is on track to reach the launch pad in the early 2030s, NASA announced this week. The PRIMA mission will be the first of NASA’s Probe Explorers, a new line ...

Approximately 63 light-years from Earth lies a planetary system so young that it's less than 1 percent as old as our solar system. It is called Beta Pictoris, and—as far as astronomers have ...

There’s something wonderfully unlikely about being able to see Saturn’s rings from your own garden. You know they’re there, obviously. But finding them through an eyepiece is a rather different ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) — the most advanced infrared space telescope — acts like a time machine to explore the early universe. This video has been dubbed in 15 languages (audio tracks ...