The smallest magnetic loops ever seen in the sun's corona — imaged for the first time by the National Science Foundation's ...

Astronomers captured a glimpse of the innermost layers of a massive star before it exploded in a supernova, changing their ...

A team led by scientists at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Colorado made 10 different 40-minute exposures of ...

Researchers describe the newly discovered binary system as a cosmic oddball. Stars often reach the end of their lives and ...

A team of astronomers announced Tuesday that a new satellite measuring roughly 90 football fields across was discovered ...

Just six miles in diameter, our little neighbor is so small that no telescope has been powerful enough to notice it orbiting ...

The outer reaches of our solar system just got a little more crowded, with astronomers spotting a previously unseen moon ...

Many small telescopes manufactured today are high-quality instruments I am proud to use. “Medium” telescopes have apertures from 4 to 10 inches.

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Check out an amazing view of star cluster NGC 602. It "lies on the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud," according to the ...

Every night is a good night to look through a telescope (provided it’s not cloudy), but if you’re looking for an excuse, Jupiter is lining itself up for some candid closeups. At its farthest ...