The Hubble Space Telescope has glimpsed the most distant single star it's ever observed, glimmering 28 billion light-years away. And the star could be between 50 to 500 times more massive than our sun ...

Thirty-four years after Cornell University scientists first conceived it, the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) now ...

Astronomer Robert Kirshner investigates some of the universe’s biggest questions: What happens when a star explodes? Is the universe still expanding? He recently added a new mystery to the list: Is ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that time was “running out” in the race to build the next great optical telescope ...

Inside a very big and very clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Marlyland., nearly 30 workers dressed in white protective suits, goggles and blue booties cluster around the ...

In last week’s The Universe column, I fielded a reader’s question about galaxy collisions in an expanding universe. The answer deals with vast distances, inscrutable forces and the ultimate fate of ...