Our beginner-friendly guide helps you get familiar with the moon, Jupiter, nebulas and galaxies this Christmas.

Go outside right now. What’s the farthest thing you can see? A tree? A bird? What about the Moon? It’s 250,000 miles away. The Sun is 400 times farther than that, at nearly 100 million miles (but ...

Rochester Institute of Technology astrophysicist Jeyhan Kartaltepe will be one of the first scientists to use NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope soon after it launches in spring 2019. The Webb ...

That’s right—at more than 1,000 community libraries across the country, you can check out a telescope thanks to the Library Telescope Program. So whether you have a budding astronomer at home or are ...

The simple mistakes every stargazing newbie makes — avoid these traps and you'll get the best out of your telescope from ...

A new study published in Science marks the first time astronomers have directly measured the mass of a rogue planet, a ...

Remember just last week when we were all excitedly reading about the record one in 32 chance that a giant asteroid was on a collision course with Earth? Well, it isn't anymore but that doesn't mean ...

For most of us who are not astronomers, the image that comes to mind when describing a reflecting telescope is of a huge instrument in its own domed-roof building on a mountain top. But a ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified a new moon, S/2025 U1, orbiting the ice giant Uranus. The ...