The night sky of Aspen is a wonderland for stargazers, dark and transparent enough for the naked eye to discern ...

To make the Moon look so large in the background, photographers need to use superzoom telephoto lenses of at least 1,000mm while being positioned a mile or so away from the all-important foreground ...

At the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, Meredith Rawls makes sure reflected sunlight doesn’t ruin astronomical observations by the ...

Since its completion in 2016, FAST (the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, known as "China's Tianyan") has captured over 1,000 pulsars within the Milky Way, including the faintest pulsar ...

Explore the history of moon photography and learn how to get started with astrophotography using the best gear and settings.

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Data centers are a huge burden on natural resources. Some companies think the solution is to send them to space.

Xu Jun's self-made astronomical telescope captures the moon. Photo provided by the interviewee. Xu Jun's self-made astronomical telescope. Photo provided by the interviewee.

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David Baron's "The Martians" plumbs the depths of America's fascination with Mars at the turn of the 20th century.

When scientists discovered the first planet orbiting another star in 1995, few outside astronomy circles noticed. That planet ...