There's no better time than now to embrace the majesty of the night sky to begin a lifelong journey with amateur astronomy ...

Richard Fishacre challenged the scientific orthodoxy of his day, and contemporary astrophysics has vindicated his position.

During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and color to show ...

A small piece of metal engineered in Australia helped sharpen the James Webb telescope's vision from a million miles away.

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 ...

Help is needed to save a telescope that plays a crucial role in astronomical observations. This video highlights the telescope's significance, the challenges it faces, and the efforts being made to ...

An interstellar comet is dramatically jetting off ice and dust into space, a new image shows. The comet, called 3I/ATLAS, is sending out a jet of material towards the sun as our nearest star warms up ...

If you've ever fancied witnessing a meteor shower, tonight (October 21) could be your golden opportunity. This week sees the climax of the annual Orionid meteor shower, often simply referred to as the ...

November nights will bring us back to a visitor from interstellar space. If you don't know what we're talking about, you must be living under a rock at the ...

Florissant resident and astronomy lead for International Dark Sky, Mark Harter captures Comet Lemmon at Florissant Fossil Beds. (Courtesy Mark Harter) One of the greatest things about living in Teller ...

Contrary to claims that 3I/ATLAS is no longer from Earth, space experts claim that the Manhattan-sized comet can now be captured by anyone with basic viewing equipment. Astronomer Yicheng Zhang ...

Nearly 600,000 Hoosiers will go without Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits in November barring a sudden restoration of funding as the government shutdown drags on. The U.S. Department ...