Explore the night sky with the best telescopes to suit every budget and experience level, perfect for observing April's full moon and zooming in on the Pinwheel and Whirlpool Galaxies. April is a ...

Just how powerful is the world's most powerful telescope? Let's start with the human eye. The human eye has an angular resolution of about 1 arcminute. That's pretty impressive. Take a circle ...

This book summarizes the science to be carried out by the upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array, a major ground-based gamma-ray observatory that will be constructed over the next six to eight years. The ...

The Chandra mission has observed the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant for over 2 million seconds since its launch in 1999. The iconic Pillars of Creation, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, have ...

MEMBERS of a campaign group seeking "justice" after a dad-of-two was shot dead by an officer held a "peaceful protest" outside Redditch Police Station. The Justice 4 Marcus Meade campaign group called ...

What did Gaia achieve? And perhaps most importantly, why was it my favourite space telescope? Gaia was retired for a simple reason: after more than 11 years in space, it ran out of the cold gas ...

GREEN BANK, W.Va. (WBOY) — The world’s largest fully-steerable radio telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia is getting a fresh coat of paint. The new paint job won’t come cheap either, with an initial ...

In 1974, the most powerful broadcast ever deliberately beamed into space was made from Puerto Rico. The broadcast formed part of the ceremonies held to mark a major upgrade to the Arecibo Radio ...

New observations by the James Webb Space Telescope - sort of a postmortem examination - indicate that the planet's demise happened differently than initially thought. Instead of the star coming to ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a distant ancient galaxy suggesting that the early universe emerged from its "dark ages" earlier than previously believed. Webb, which ...