Perihelion is the point on an orbital course that brings a body closest to the sun. C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) is an Oort cloud comet ...

In the quiet darkness of his Mount Tabor backyard in Southeast Portland, Josh Romberg carefully points his 4-foot telescope at the North Star. Unlike amateur astronomers of decades past, he isn’t ...

A gas giant the size of Jupiter, yet even heavier and denser, has captured the attention of astronomers across the world. This planet, now confirmed and named TOI-4465 b, lies roughly 400 light-years ...

Dr. Aaron Clevenson, adjunct astronomy professor at Lone Star College-Montgomery, speaking at the North Houston Astronomy Club last week, demonstrated how amateurs can build a radio telescope to use ...

Here’s one for our astronomy geeks. Our hacker [arrow] has made their own observatory! This particular video is a bit over ten minutes long and is basically a montage; there is no narration or ...

If you own a small backyard telescope, there's a good chance you've seen the Cigar Galaxy (M82) with your own eyes. Not only ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Coma Cluster, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. | Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team ...

They didn’t use a space telescope, or a huge ground-based scope like the Keck or the Gemini, or even the sort of backyard telescope some planet hunters rely on to gather evidence of alien worlds.

Professional astronomers don’t make discoveries by looking through an eyepiece like you might with a backyard telescope. Instead, they collect digital images in massive cameras attached to large ...