In 1977, a US-backed search for alien signals detected a 72-second radio burst from deep space that was about 30 times ...

A deep field image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and ...

Expert tester rated the Celestron NexStar 8SE telescope with an impressive review and it's now at its best price of the year ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. colorful wisps of gas in deep space in front of thousands of stars The universe has never looked this gorgeous. The first images ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bright space nebula reflects of the hexagonal shaped mirror cluster of the james webb space telescope. The James Webb Space ...

The hunt is on. A group of scientists has banded together to build the world’s first privately funded deep-space telescope, to hunt for asteroids that could pose a major threat to Earth. The private ...

I stuck to my "no telescope" rule for years, right up until a trip to New Brunswick's dark-sky corridor a few years ago, when ...

When you become a young observer of the skies, happy to be out in a dark field at night with a 6-inch or 8-inch scope, you never dream of the kind of night of observing I experienced on Thursday, June ...

One of the Hubble Space Telescope’s most iconic images is the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, which unveiled myriad galaxies across the universe, stretching back to within a few hundred million years of the ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...