Scientists and engineers working on the world’s largest ground-based astronomical project, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), have achieved another milestone — the successful ...

Oct. 22 (UPI) --NASA is helping the European Space Agency develop space telescopes that can detect gravitational waves caused when black holes merge and when other cosmic events occur. The ESA is ...

KAMUELA, Hawaii (December 18, 2006) The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the W. M. Keck Observatory $2 million to improve the sensitivity and resolution of the Keck Interferometer. The ...

The successful creation of a guide star above the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Paranal site in Chile with freshly installed lasers marks a new era of interferometry, according to the ESO team.

The sharpest images yet of a supermassive black hole have been captured by University of Arizona astronomers at the Steward Observatory. The team described how they captured the infrared image of the ...

A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the night sky last month. Veteran comet hunters have called G3 (ATLAS) the "Great Comet of 2025" due to ...

After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA's US$10 billion (AU$15 billion) James Webb Space Telescope. There had not been such a ...