Helping young people tap into their excitement about the night sky helps them build confidence and opens career pathways they may not have considered before.

After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A couple more test flights, and SpaceX plans to launch it into orbit. A month ...

We now have direct images of two supermassive black holes: M87* and Sag A*. The fact that we can capture such images is ...

Isolation dictates where we go to see into the far reaches of the universe. The Atacama Desert of Chile, the summit of Mauna ...

One of the boldest dreams in modern astronomy is the search for Earth-like worlds beyond our solar system. These exoplanets may hold oceans, rocky ground, and even atmospheres rich in oxygen or ...

Buying a telescope is a big step, especially if you’re not sure what all those terms — f/ratio, magnification, go-to — mean. So, to eliminate confusion and make sure you understand what you’re buying, ...

The Atacama desert is a hotspot for astronomy. With its dry thin air and lack of light pollution, it's a perfect place for some of the world's largest and most accurate telescopes. Several of these ...

SpectrUM recently gained a $250,000 grant from NASA to place telescopes in the fall of this year in libraries across the state of Montana.

Every fifth grade student at Coronado K-8 School received their own tabletop telescope to take and keep from the Sun City Oro Valley Astronomy Club Friday. "I thought we were gonna learn about the ...

The night sky has long sparked wonder and curiosity. Early civilizations studied the stars and tracked celestial events, predicted eclipses and used their observations to construct calendars, develop ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Scholars widely agree that astronomy is a gateway science – that it inspires a core ...