October 21, 1897- the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay officially opened. The observatory housed the world’s largest ...

Why it's so special: What are the smallest stars? A deep dive into the star-forming Flame Nebula by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed free-floating, Jupiter-size objects that could ...

The Vera C. Rubin observatory will host a “first look” event at 11 a.m. ET on Monday, June 23. You can watch it live right here. reading time 3 minutes A state-of-the-art telescope nearly 25 years in ...

Why it's so special: Stars in the Milky Way galaxy are born in huge molecular clouds. The most massive is Sagittarius B2, which is just a few hundred light-years from our the galaxy's central black ...

NASA unveils 9 stunning snapshots of the cosmos in X-ray vision: Space photo of the week James Webb telescope's 'starlit mountaintop' could be the observatory's best image yet — Space photo of the ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — Telescopes on the National Mall tonight will give people a chance to see the stars and experience the largest astronomy outreach event in the United States, organizers said.