2025 was a big year for astronomy, marked by major technological milestones and rare celestial events. We got our first look at images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which will forever change how ...

This image, which is brimming with stars and dark dust clouds, is a small extract — a mere pinprick — of the full Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey (DECaPS2) of the Milky Way. The new dataset contains a ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. An international team reported Wednesday that this celestial object — perhaps a star, pair of ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Professional astronomers don’t make discoveries by ...

The Celestron Origin is a complete, easy-to-assemble home observatory. It uses a high-quality camera and software for easy astrophotography. The system automatically finds, tracks, and focuses on ...

A team of school students and teachers has discovered 11 small astronomical objects in our solar system, including one provisionally recognized by a NASA-backed program as a main belt asteroid (MBA).

Subaru Telescope opened its doors to astronomers from all over the world in December, 2000. In the five years since then, the telescope’s capabilities have been further advanced through ongoing ...

Astronomers has employed a cutting-edge, AI-assisted technique to uncover rare astronomical phenomena within archived data.

Mobile apps and AI processing are making things a lot easier for would-be stargazers, who no longer have to fiddle with focusing using cold fingers or even track and identify celestial objects – smart ...

This image provided by NASA shows X-rays from NASAs Chandra X-ray Observatory (represented in blue) that have been combined with infrared data from NASAs retired Spitzer Space Telescope (cyan, light ...