So scientists found a workaround. Instead of building one gigantic telescope, they placed smaller telescopes far apart and ...

To capture higher-definition and sharper images of cosmological objects, astronomers sometimes combine the data collected by ...

For a few brief nights each year, you get a rare chance to watch a monster blink. The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration ...

It would be understandable if you stopped thinking as much about Pluto after it was “demoted” from being considered one of the nine planets sharing the Earth’s solar system to being classified as a ...

Something genuinely strange has just happened in fundamental physics: an underground neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean ...

The telescope primarily detects light in the infrared in order to observe sources such as the first galaxies and protostars.

The UK government is to slash by 30 percent its funding for astronomy, particle and nuclear physics in a move branded as disastrous for the field and likely to affect a generation of researchers.

India has unveiled plans to build two new optical-infrared telescopes and a dedicated solar telescope in the Himalayan desert ...

If you enter Drexel University’s Main Building, take the stairs in the Great Court to the third floor, walk towards Curtis Hall (go past the A.J. Drexel Picture Gallery on your right), follow a long ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

A new generation of extremely large telescopes requires fresh approaches to correct for the blurring effects caused by the Earth’s atmosphere, as Richard de Grijs, one of an international team of ...