A new study says observations from the NASA Fermi space telescope suggest a halo of dark matter around the center of our ...

If you're wondering what kind of telescope you need to see Saturn and Jupiter, you're halfway to the answer. Although either of the two main types of telescope — refractors and reflectors — can be ...

This makes it appear correspondingly smaller through a telescope—infinitesimally smaller, in fact, appearing as only a point ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

This month will bring some striking celestial sights, including one of the year’s best meteor showers and a glowing ...

There’s magic in the air this holiday season and there’s also magic in the  December Pottsville night skies. These long ...

Dec. 7 — Long Beach: Check out the Museum of Latin American Art on Sundays, when it’s always free (and so is parking). And on ...

Skywatchers across the world will witness the final supermoon of the year. This “Cold Moon” will shine particularly bright.

Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a ...

I've rounded up some of the best Black Friday deals from telescopes to Lego to help you find the ideal gift for your ...

The Earth's planetary defenses will observe an interstellar comet flying through the Solar System, the United Nations has ...

The annual meteor shower, active since July, will peak before dawn Monday. It's one of the brightest and most easily viewed showers of the year, producing “bright blue meteors — and lots of them," ...