Biology major Mia Gil uses a telescope at the Center for Sciences at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Calif., on June 2, 2025. Photo by Elizabeth Tirheimer Pierce College’s Department of Physics and ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has gifted us with some of the most stunning and detailed images of our universe. From distant galaxies and star-forming nebulae to colossal galaxy clusters, these ...

On Thursday, a fortunate group of a dozen of us journeyed for an hour south and a little east of the city to the institution’s largest telescope, the 4.3m Lowell Discovery Telescope. We spent an ...

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations indicate that Pluto’s atmosphere is unlike any other in the solar system, confirming a 2017 hypothesis and potentially revealing how the early Earth ...

According to the simulations, the new telescope is expected to detect more than 120,000 asteroids and comets that are at least approaching the Earth's orbit and are therefore potentially dangerous ...

In 2024, the National Science Foundation stated there was only enough money for one giant US telescope. Now the thirty-meter telescope will be left empty-handed. The agency responsible for funding ...

Astronomy has lost one of its most assiduous calculators of eclipses with the passing of astronomer Fred Espenak, known ...

Work on a $2.4bn telescope sited on top of a volcano in Hawaii is set to be abandoned after the body funding decided to prioritise other schemes and areas of research. Work on the Thirty Meter ...

The National Science Foundation will no longer fund the controversial Thirty Meter Telescope planned for construction atop Maunakea, instead choosing to back its international competitor ...