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

China has completed its first overseas new-generation radio telescope in northern Thailand, bolstering a global scientific network that monitors deep space signals and tracks subtle shifts in the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's deepest view of a single target yet depicts spinning arcs of light that are galaxies from the universe's distant past, the European Space Agency said Tuesday.

The most up-to-date plans for the telescope include a 1,150-foot-wide (350 meter) meshed reflector, which is larger than Arecibo's collapsed dish but smaller than FAST. This is around three times ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted MoM z14. It is the most distant galaxy ever seen. This galaxy existed 280 million years after the Big Bang. It redefines our view of galaxy formation.

On Thursday, a fortunate group of a dozen of us journeyed for an hour south and a little east of the city to the institution’s largest telescope, the 4.3m Lowell Discovery Telescope. We spent an ...

Freedman's latest calculation, which incorporates data from both the Hubble Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope, finds a value of 70.4 kilometers per second per megaparsec, plus or minus 3%.

Pope Leo XIV has declared that the discoveries made since the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope mean it is an ...

Sequels are never as good as the originals, right? That certainly doesn't apply to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), whose latest image adds a new dimension of data to its spectacular 2024 ...

Installed on the 5.25-foot (1.6-meter) Goode Solar Telescope in California, the new system—nicknamed “Cona”—adjusts a mirror 2,200 times per second to correct for distortions caused by the ...

Want to make the most of your telescope? You need a mount to match. We have rounded up the best telescope mounts in time for April's new moon. When you purchase through links on our site ...