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

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 ...

On Earth, the best telescope locations are high in the mountains, distant from the lights of human cities and with less atmospheric distortion of their observations. The Chilean Andes are an ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the largest digital camera ever made.

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 ...

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

One of the SKA's great quests will be to trace the full history of hydrogen, the most abundant element in the Universe. The telescope should be able to detect hydrogen's presence even before great ...

He made the telescope, and many others himself in his tiny workshop off the kitchen. You can see a perfect replica of the telescope at the Herschel Museum of Astronomy 19 New King Street.

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 ...