Getting a closer look at the Moon isn’t particularly difficult; even an absolute beginner can point a cheap telescope towards our nearest celestial neighbor and get some impressive views.

It may seem self-obvious, but the James Webb Space Telescope ... on December 18, 2021, at 7:20 EST. The launch begins a roughly one-month voyage to the observatory’s home at Lagrange point ...

Interstellar dust clouds and inky stretches of deep space can appear dull to ordinary telescopes. But to a car-size telescope 26 million miles (41.8 million kilometers) from Earth, they are alive ...