The journey of astronomical telescopes began in the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei crafted his first refracting ...

Capturing images of individual stars in distant galaxies has generally been considered impossible for decades. But NASA’s ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is currently located in a clean room at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland (courtesy: NASA/Jolearra Tshiteya) Engineers have successfully integrated ...

Galileo and Sarpi took Doge Dona and his advisers to the top of the tower of St Mark’s and pointed the new telescope towards Padua. The doge was astounded to be able to see the tower at the centre of ...

Stable levitation The NYU team performed experiments on robotic hula hoopers using gyrating bodies with various shapes. Overlaid video frames reveal that an hourglass-shaped body successfully hula ...

Looking for a telescope for the next night sky event? We recommend the Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 130AZ as the top pick for basic astrophotography in our best beginner's telescope guide.

Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016. Dr. Rubin’s work persuaded astronomers of the existence of dark ...

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. High atop Chile’s 2,700-meter Cerro ...

Scientists are deploying two telescopes to detect high-energy neutrinos, also known as ghost particles, under the Mediterranean Sea. The two telescopes are part of the Cubic Kilometre Neutrino ...

This would avoid the challenges of testing and launch-proofing large, complex structures, like habitats and telescopes, and give us the flexibility to change those structures if mission needs are ...

Since its launch on Christmas Day, 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has proven its worth year after year. 2024 is no exception. Here are just five times the ultrapowerful telescope has ...