Galileo continued writing in conversational language for his landmark 1632 work, Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del ...

Priscilla Diane Chapman Frisch, a University of Chicago Research Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a world-leading ...

And, scientists with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have detected what they like to call a ...

How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a ...

We’re essentially opening a new window on the transient universe” said Matthew Siebert of the Space Telescope Science Institute, capturing the awe that swept through the astrophysics community after ...

NASA’s Webb Space Telescope reveals ancient surface of Pluto and other celestial bodies for the first time Scientists say findings confirmed what they had expected — but in unexpected ways ...

For years, astronomers have been working to piece together the story of our universe, but the critical early chapters ...

For the first time, scientists have used ground-based telescopes to look back more than 13 billion years and observe how the universe’s first stars affected ancient light left over from the Big ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile houses the world's most powerful survey telescope with the largest digital camera ever built by humans, and it is about to drop its first pictures. The US ...

When we were kids, it was a rite of passage to read the newly arrived Edmund catalog and dream of building our own telescope. One of our friends lived near a University, and they even had a summer … ...

The telescope features an 8.4-meter primary mirror with a three-mirror design that provides an exceptionally wide 3.5-degree field of view, seven times the area of the full moon. At its core is ...