For the first time, a flat telescope lens has been produced that represents colors accurately, offering a way to make less ...

The team behind the first ever image of a black hole can now observe the same celestial gargantuan with greater definition than ever before. On Tuesday, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team ...

The first successful use of a radio telescope on the moon has kicked off a new era of astronomy that could shed light on the cosmic dark ages – despite a bumpy landing. NASA’s ROLSES-1 (Radio wave ...

The newly discovered brown dwarf could help test NASA’s Roman Space Telescope. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. While our ability ...

NASA has unveiled a prototype of six telescopes that in the years ahead will be part of a first-of-its kind mission to study a cosmic phenomenon that could hold clues about some of the universe's ...

Aug. 31—CANTON — A massive 11-foot-wide mirror, created in Canton, is installed at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The mirror will help scientists identify potentially harmful asteroids and ...

Using new readings from NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have detected previously unknown chemicals on the surface of Charon, Pluto’s largest moon. The powerful space telescope ...

At the dawn of the 17th Century, Galileo Galilei began the first major search of the night sky (as well as the Sun!) using a new Dutch invention — the telescope. In the era when William Shakespeare ...

Just how powerful is the world’s most powerful telescope? Let’s start with the human eye. The human eye has an angular resolution of about 1 arcminute. That's pretty impressive. Take a circle ...