NASA’s upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory will search for alien life starting in the 2040s. I Was A Happily Married Mother ...

Scientists flew the XL-Calibur telescope on a high-altitude balloon to measure polarized X-rays from Cygnus X-1. These ...

The space agency got a close look at the interstellar visitor over the past few months as it zipped by Mars and the sun ...

The James Webb Space Telescope was built with a flaw, and because it's a million miles away, we can't repair it, but we can ...

A waxing gibbous moon and the ringed planet Saturn will enlighten our sky for treat-or-treaters this Halloween.

A powerful new telescope has captured its first glimpse of the cosmos, and could transform our understanding of how stars, galaxies and black holes evolve. The 4MOST (4-meter Multi-Object ...

Starfront Observatories allows amateur astronomers to rent a spot for their telescopes and photograph the cosmos over a high-speed data connection. In a year and a half, Starfront Observatories in ...

Spotting Earth-like planets is nearly impossible with conventional telescopes, but researchers propose a bold fix: a rectangular design that can separate a planet’s faint glow from its blinding star.

In a former cattle field in rural central Texas, a startup called Starfront has quietly built what it claims is the world’s largest remote telescope observatory by number of scopes. The facility ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet using the direct-imaging technique. The host star's light was blocked using a coronagraph to reveal a planet to its right. The light at the ...

On April 24, 1990, NASA and the European Space Agency launched an astronomical revolution. When the Space Shuttle Discovery roared into the sky on that day, it carried the Hubble Space Telescope in ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images We've rounded up the best telescopes for kids, focusing on scopes that are ...