Atop the mountain Cerro Armazones in Chile, construction is underway on the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), which will usher ...

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A team of researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope has produced the most detailed map of dark matter to date.

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Planned launch of 500,000 satellites could spoil about one in three Hubble images, even when the telescope stays above Earth's weather.

Astronomers used James Webb Space Telescope data to determine the density of the universe's most mysterious "stuff." ...

Astronomers using theSubaru Telescope in Hawaiʻi have made groundbreaking discoveries, unveiling a massive planet and a brown dwarf orbiting distant stars. These findings, detailed in a study ...

The venerable Hubble observatory is going strong despite its decades in space and the advent of next-generation successors ...

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Buying a telescope is a big step, especially if you’re not sure what all those terms — f/ratio, magnification, go-to — mean. So, to eliminate confusion and make sure you understand what you’re buying, ...