Emirates Astronomy Society achieves a historic milestone by photographing the Crescent Nebula, 5,000 light-years away, ...

Vera Cooper Rubin (1928–2016) was a pioneering American astronomer who reshaped our understanding of the cosmos. In the 1970s ...

Webb discovered dozens of small, powerful galaxies from 800 million years ago that likely drove cosmic reionization by emitting strong ultraviolet radiation. Astronomers using data from NASA ’s James ...

Eventually, telescopes rise in the distance, the sun glinting off their metal domes. The newest eye on the cosmos is the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which houses the largest digital camera ever built.

A state-of-the-art telescope nearly 25 years in the making will finally reveal its first images on Monday, June 23, and you can watch the event in realtime. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, perched ...

Telescopes team up to probe distant worldsResearchers are now using the JWST in tandem with the Hubble and other telescopes to make multiwavelength observations of worlds outside our solar system. The ...

NASA Priyamvada Natarajan roman telescope Arun Kumar Arun Kumar is an Editor-at-Large at The American Bazaar. He can be reached at [email protected] ...

Not only is it the world's most powerful solar telescope, it's also the largest. Built with about 150 tons of steel, it sits atop the 10,000-foot-high (3,048-meter) summit of the volcanic mountain.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently turned its attention to the distant planetary system in our Milky Way galaxy to gather new and unexpected insights for a team of researchers. Using Webb ...

The Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT), a 4.3-meter optical telescope operated by Lowell Observatory, is pictured on a clear winter day near Happy Jack, Arizona.

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope captured the sharpest-ever images of the sun’s surface, revealing ultra-fine bright and dark stripes called striations that are caused by powerful magnetic ...