The best telescopes reveal some 100,000 background galaxies in a section of sky the apparent size of the full moon ... A radio telescope ought to be able to distinguish them and to create, from the ...

If you look up at the night sky in a dark enough place, with enough patience you’re almost sure to see a satellite cross the sky. It’s pretty cool to think you’re watching light reflect off ...

T he Euclid space observatory launched in July 2023, tasked with creating a 3D map of more than a third of the sky, surveying ...

ESA/Gaia/DPAC Mapping dust: The galactic plane is dustiest ... And with Gaia expected to keep scanning the sky until 2025, it could be the end of the decade or even the early 2030s before all ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A rare eleventh-century Islamic astrolabe has been discovered in the ...

The map — which dates to between 1800 and 400 B.C. — is among the oldest depictions of the night sky ever found. Creating such a map would not have required advanced knowledge of the cosmos ...