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

The arrival of those photons—many from ancient stars and galaxies and which had been travelling across the universe for ...

Here, Galileo took this crude device with a magnification of around ×3 and refined it, ... (limited by the combined area of the telescopes) and field of view ...

The KAO came into the world as a replacement for the Convair 990 called the Galileo Observatory, which was destroyed in 1973 as a result of a mid-air collision. It was put together using the same ...

Our view of the universe just expanded: The first image from NASA’s new space telescope unveiled Monday is brimming with galaxies and offers the deepest look of the cosmos ever captured.

The galaxy sits in a sweet spot that allows astronomers to study it in ways that can't be applied to even our own Milky Way ...

We have selected the best telescopes for gazing into deep space, and with June's new moon darkening the skies, it'll be even easier to track down constellations, nebulae and other objects.

The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the Universe – a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang into existence.

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to begin operations in 2027, will revolutionize our understanding of dark ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just dropped its very first images. Expected to revolutionize our understanding of the Universe, the new eye on the sky hasn't disappointed. For 10 hours, the US ...

Crucially, this bounce occurs entirely within the framework of general relativity, which applies on large scales such as ...

This idea, which we call the black hole universe, offers a radically different view of cosmic origins ... powered by an unknown field with strange properties. Later, to explain the accelerating ...