"We found an unexpected chemical complexity, with abundances far higher than predicted by current theoretical models." ...

NASA scientists have proposed something extraordinary: building the largest telescope ever made on the far side of the Moon.

Light is the fastest phenomenon in the universe, clocking in at just under 300,000 kilometers per second. The telescopes that observe that light, from radio waves to gamma rays, are built at rather ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that time was “running out” in the race to build the next great optical telescope ...

Isolation dictates where we go to see into the far reaches of the universe. The Atacama Desert of Chile, the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the vast expanse of the Australian Outback—these are where ...

Coming from one of the world's largest astrophysical research institutes, I can tell you, the anticipation across the global ...

From its unique landscapes at White Sands National Park and Bisti-Badlands/De-Na-Zin Wilderness to one-of-a-kind attractions like Meow Wolf and the Taos Gorge Bridge, New Mexico is as unique and ...

NASA’s Hubble has examined Cloud-9, a strange object with no stars that offers clues about early galaxy formation and dark ...

I’m forever grateful to NASA for giving me an amazing 10 years. After four to five years in astrophysics, I was able to go to ...

York was the first researcher to find an isotope of hydrogen known as deuterium, which helped give researchers an ...

GREENWICH — Rick Bria has maintained and operated the telescope at the Bowman Observatory in Greenwich for 40 years. He swept ...

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