This initiative brings SETI science to community colleges and provides hands-on training for community college instructors and students in astronomy, digital signal processing, and radio science.

The U.S. National Science Foundation Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world's most powerful solar telescope, operated by ...

Hubble is still going strong 35 years after it was launched into space. Celebrate its anniversary with some out-of-this-world images.

Using the MeerKAT radio telescope, scientists have detected numerous plasma structures near a twinkling pulsar, J0437-4715, revealing new insights into our cosmic neighborhood. The study unveils ...

Just how powerful is the world's most powerful telescope? Let's start with the human eye. The human eye has an angular resolution of about 1 arcminute. That's pretty impressive. Take a circle ...

"The instrument is, so to speak, the heart of the solar telescope, which is now finally beating at its final destination." The world's largest solar telescope has gained a powerful new "eye" that ...

The world's largest solar telescope has reached an important milestone. The data published now were obtained during the technical commissioning of the instrument.

During its 35 years of orbiting the Earth, the Hubble Space Telescope has transmitted endless streams of magnificent images, confirmed the existence of "dark matter," and helped track a vagabond ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), perched atop the Hawaiian mountain of Haleakalā, is the world's largest telescope used for studying the sun and predicting these storms. The team ...

"We want to understand how these galaxies are forming stars, how many stars they’re forming, and especially how the black holes at their centers are growing." Astronomers have used the James ...

The Hubble Space Telescope marks its 35th anniversary with a stunning new image of the Sombrero Galaxy. This detailed view reveals the galaxy's structure, including its bright bulge and dusty disc.