The James Webb Space Telescope can look deeper (and earlier) into the cosmos than any telescope before it. How much do you ...

The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant ...

Shifting air pockets in the atmosphere block and distort light, limiting the view from even the most powerful Earth-bound instruments. Orbital telescopes function as eyes in the sky that allow ...

Special to The New York Times ... CHICAGO, July 3 -- Two new telescopes are being constructed at the Yerkes Observatory. One is a two-foot horizontal reflecting glass of 165 feet focal length ...

New measurements from the Webb telescope – Nasa’s most powerful space observatory ... That might mean there are unknown forces at work in the universe, for instance, or that there is ...

A violent clash of galaxies has been caught in unprecedented detail by one of the most powerful telescopes based in La Palma, Spain. The collision was triggered by a rogue galaxy, hurtling through ...

Once they pinpoint the collision, they turn to larger, more powerful telescopes across the world. These probe the collision in much greater detail, and at different wavelengths. This process is ...

Three years ago on Christmas Day, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and most powerful telescope humans ... most in-depth information on the forces that form protoplanetary discs ...

The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant galaxy. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, history's largest and most ...

The Spektr-RG telescope is a joint venture with Germany that will map X-rays across the entire sky in unprecedented detail. Researchers say this information will help them trace the large-scale ...