While the billionaire space race increasingly crowds the stars with tech moguls and celebrities, NASA continues its scientific work. On Christmas morning, NASA launched its most powerful telescope ...

23 January 2009, Paris: One of the International Astronomical Union’s contributions to the International Year of Astronomy 2009 is the new book and movie Eyes on the Skies — 400 Years of Telescopic ...

Now that the calendar reads February, the team behind the Webb Space Telescope released the observatory’s picture of the month. Wednesday, NASA shared the image in question, a stunning snapshot of a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope was successfully launched in December 2021 and is a new optical telescope consisting of 18 hexagonal mirror segments made of gold-plated beryllium which combine to ...

NASA set out on a monumental journey with the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope in April 1990. Since then, it has captured the minds and imaginations of people around the world. To celebrate the ...

Humans are, as a species, hardwired to explore. We conquered the planet thanks to untold generations of people needing to see what lay over the next hill or around the next river bend and our ...

Gazing at the night sky and pointing out constellations is all well and good, but the arrival of smart digital telescopes has given stargazers the power to capture and share celestial majesty with ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers have assembled a mosaic of nearly 7,500 images taken of the distant universe, ...

STAUNTON — You can now gaze at the stars thanks to two newly donated telescopes that can be checked out from the Staunton Public Library. Starting March 1, patrons can check out the telescopes for ...

F or centuries, dating back to long before the invention of the telescope, people have reported odd flashes that sometimes ...

The James Webb Space Telescope — the most powerful of its kind — will launch into space on Dec. 22. Astronomer Laura Kreidberg talks about what she hopes to learn about the atmosphere and weather of ...