The James Webb space telescope had several stunning findings this year that changed how we understand the universe.

Some of humanity's modern telescopes look nothing like their predecessors, but they share a common purpose and history.

Sir Isaac Newton once wrote, in what must be one of the most oft-quoted lines in the history of science ... any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same, for the two ...

What knocked this black hole over onto its side? It's a cosmic "whodunnit" that NASA scientists using the Hubble and Chandra ...

Fascinated by the night sky he purchased his Wray telescope (a very expensive purchase ... Most of the content on A History of the World is created by the contributors, who are the museums and ...

But the telescope couldn't be shipped as if it were ... Despite the mission's history of nonlinearity over the previous decades, it couldn't have reached this final stage without a lot going ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's ability to detect light at infrared wavelengths allows scientists to study galaxies forming at a time period in the universe's history known as "cosmic noon." ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team at NASA has completed the integration of the telescope and its instruments onto ...

Ivezić is the 59-year-old director of the Vera Rubin Observatory, a $1 billion telescope that the United States has been developing in the Chilean high desert for more than 20 years. He was ...

ESA's Gaia telescope identified the two threads of ... researchers worked out the history of different stars' orbits. They also looked at their chemical composition - which is basically what ...