The John J. McCarthy Observatory - run by volunteers on the grounds of New Milford High School - has been watching the night sky for 25 years.

Sometimes astronomers don't need giant telescopes to observe the wonders of the cosmos; they just need to look up at the ...

The Space Weather Follow On — Lagrange 1 executed its final engine burn Jan. 23 to reach its destination roughly 1.6 million ...

Coming from one of the world's largest astrophysical research institutes, I can tell you, the anticipation across the global space science community is electric.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NASA has tapped startup Katalyst to save a $500 million orbiting observatory from falling into Earth's atmosphere by launching a spacecraft meant to push it farther in space, a ...

NASA completes assembly of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The observatory will enter final testing before launch, providing infrared surveys and cosmic data for astronomy research.

The venerable Hubble observatory is going strong despite its decades in space and the advent of next-generation successors ...

A "crowdsourced" project in which home computer users were enlisted to help analyze radio signals from space is ending after ...

A notional concept for NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory, a large space telescope proposed to launch as soon as the early 2040s. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab ...

In its preliminary data release, taken from just seven nights of observations, the powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory has discovered an enormous, fast-spinning asteroid that sets a new record. When ...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife Wendy are spearheading one of the ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A streak of bright green light appeared above Southern California on Tuesday. According to the Griffith Observatory, the flash of light was caused by "space junk," possibly ...