Now the new South Pole Telescope data, when combined with data from Atacama Cosmology Telescope, set a new standard—a moment many in the field have been waiting for, the scientists said.

The telescope has been named after Dr Vera C Rubin, honouring her legacy in exploring the universe.

NASA has just released a new documentary about the most powerful space telescope ever built, and you can watch it now.

Instead, it follows a more complex, non-Keplerian path that hints at the inner structure of the system. Astrometric residuals for observations for the binary quadrupole–point-mass fit.

Researchers at the University of Leicester have captured stunning images of Jupiter's auroras using the James Webb Space Telescope.

The most powerful solar telescope in the world has recorded a major milestone atop an active volcano in Hawaii, capturing a detailed image of a cluster of sunspots with the telescope’s new ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering mystery about how distant planets form, researchers said.

Scientists Create First Flat Telescope Lens That Doesn’t Distort Colors The first telescopes refracted light, and today reflectors dominate, but there is a third way to make light focus, and it ...

The telescope now named for her will help unravel the stubborn mystery surrounding it. Planetary multitudes Probing the secrets of galactic motion and dark energy won’t be Roman’s only task.

This image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features an H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. This nebula, known as N79, is a region ...

Uh, the older telescopes often used big lenses and, uh, often antique telescope enthusiasts focus on lens type or refracting telescopes.

Christmas is a great time to look for a telescope for your budding amateur astronomer. But there are some things to keep in mind when buying a telescope. Here are some tips and features to ...