Beneath a breathtaking full Moon, construction on the world’s largest optical and infrared telescope—the ELT—progresses in ...

May’s night sky is packed with astronomical events—find out when and where to look for meteor showers, ancient star clusters, ...

Rutherfurd’s Moon images are beautiful, but they also marked an important leap forward for scientific imaging through their ...

The farthest, smallest and faintest full moon of the year rises this weekend and you can watch it live online.

Budget cuts hitting U.S. government agencies like NASA don't seem promising for the Hubble Space Telescope, but there is ...

Astrophotographer Ron Brecher has captured a stunning deep sky image of the spiral galaxy M106, located 23.5 million light ...

The Moon is one of nature's wonders, but to photograph it successfully you first have to understand it. Although astrophotographers specializing in the Moon usually photograph it through a powerful ...

Launching on 24 April 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has had an out-of-this-world 35 years capturing some of the most ...

Landing site of Chang'e 4 on the far side of the Moon. (photo credit: CNSA is licensed under CC BY 4.0.) Chinese scientists plan to build a massive radio telescope array on the far side of the ...

Serving nine UC campuses and two national laboratories, Lick Observatory continues to be at the forefront of groundbreaking ...

China has successfully conducted its first satellite laser ranging at Earth-Moon distance, marking a milestone in its deep-space exploration capabilities, the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced on ...