In a celestial event known as a great alignment the five planets will be discernible with the naked eye, but to see Neptune ...

There's no mistaking. That's a telescope and the astronomer at Washburn, Jim Lattice, well, he turns to me, and he said, well, I'll look through it from the studios of Cincinnati public radio.

Christmas is a great time to look for a telescope for your budding amateur astronomer. But there are some things to keep in ...

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is known for looking deep into the universe with an unprecedented level precision and sensitivity. But its images aren't only scientifically useful — they're ...

A parade of planets will be visible to skywatchers around the globe through the rest of this month and into February.

Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.

The first trial of an Australian-developed technology has detected mysterious objects by sifting through signals from space ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and can be seen with the naked eye on a clear autumn night as “a faint ...

Planetary alignments aren't rare, but they can be when they involve six of the eight planets in our solar system.