In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects.

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...

The first images of an artificial solar eclipse from ESA's Proba-3 mission have been unveiled.

Data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of small galaxies that played a starring role in a cosmic ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have unveiled the largest map of the early universe to date, a ...

For the first time, astronomers have used a ground-based telescope to observe polarized microwave light from the universe's ...

A deep field image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and ...

Webb discovered dozens of small, powerful galaxies from 800 million years ago that likely drove cosmic reionization by ...

"This is the most distant object known to humanity." The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) excels at a lot of things, but there are two things it does better than any other scientific instrument ...

The revolutionary Vera C. Rubin Observatory will unveil new insights about our universe—and you can catch a first look at a ...

There will be three full moons during the summer. And the sky this season has a number of bright stars that form easily ...

This suggests earlier galaxies existed. The telescope's discovery is reshaping the understanding of the early universe. Source: YouTube The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has once again made ...