Before the JWST images, Hubble’s observations of Cassiopeia A were revo­­lu­tionary. In photographs taken in 2006, Hubble improved on the resolution of ground-based observations by a factor ...

If you want to break out of this obliviousness – if only temporarily – then take a moment to admire the winning entries in the IUPAP100 photo contest. The competition was organized by the ...

For more than two decades, amateur photographer Dale Carter has been capturing images of the physicists who come to the Black ...

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

The first images from ESA's dark universe detective Euclid are out, featuring spectacular views of nebulas, distant galaxies and globular clusters of thousands of stars.

Using data and images from the spacecraft Galileo, which studied Europa in 1998, Johnson analyzed the impact craters to decode truths about Europa’s structure. An expert in planetary physics and ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft has captured stunning new photos of Mercury's alien surface, from its icy craters to its sun-baked plains. On January 8, the spacecraft passed the tiny planet for the ...

Richard Crane, Arthur Ruhlig’s thesis advisor, with the University of Michigan accelerator used for experiments. Photo ...

Incredible new images of the sun's surface provide an unprecedented view of raging sunspots and solar activity. A new high-resolution camera system developed by the Leibniz Institute for ...