Over the quarter century I’ve been writing this column, I’ve been flabbergasted by the advances in telescopes for backyard ...

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has detected "a scar imprinted on the surface" of white dwarf star ...

Astronomers have identified the largest and most distant water reservoir ever detected in the universe. This immense ...

Adam Beardsley of Winona State University recently received a $500,000 grant to design an observatory to studio radio waves ...

For a century, exoplanet hunters have “discovered” planets around a nearby star, only to retract the claims. But the latest ...

Astronomers have discovered two galaxies that are perfectly aligned, allowing their combined gravitational pull to act as a compound lens.