The Roman Space Telescope realizes an idea conceived at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab. A Berkeley astronomer now leads a large ...

A research team from the Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University, Tokyo City University, Kanazawa ...

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, ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected an unusually hot and luminous cosmic explosion from when the universe ...

It's still just a plan, but a new telescope could soon be measuring gravitational waves. Gravitational waves are something like the sound waves of the universe. They are created, for example, when ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope – the space agency’s newest orbital observatory – promises unprecedented wide-angle views of the cosmos, including distant galaxies, black holes and planets ...

Roman's main camera is what makes this possible. It will see the sky with Hubble-like sharpness but with a field of view more than 100 times larger. The spacecraft will also move, settle, and start ...

Eye on the sky: the four 23 m-diameter telescopes belong to the Large-Sized Telescope array at the Roque de los Muchachos ...

The $4 billion observatory is on a million-mile journey to an orbit beyond the moon. Its five-year mission is to study dark matter and hunt for habitable worlds outside our solar system. The telescope ...

Looking at the SunWhen I was in elementary school, I was bought an astronomical telescope and was able to see the Moon, ...

As with most hobbies, there’s a point in almost every astrophotographer’s journey when the backyard stops being enough. If you get serious about astrophotography, you’ll soon enough be disappointed by ...

Established in 1930 by Leo Scanlon, the Valley View Observatory in Pittsburgh quickly gained traction among amateur ...