When you look at the night sky, do you ever wonder what's going on out there? On a clear night with a dark sky, if moonlight doesn't wash it out, sometimes you can see the arc of the Milky Way. The ...

Through the centuries, the telescope has gone through an incredible evolution to become the tool it is today. In the modern ...

I hope you had the best holiday season of your life and that Santa Claus or whoever treated you well and brought you everything you wanted on your gift list, plus a few wonderful surprises. If you ...

Imagine a camera so powerful it can see light from galaxies that formed more than 13 billion years ago. That’s exactly what NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is built to do. Since it launched in ...

Hubble caught a lift to orbit tucked inside NASA's space shuttle Discovery in 1990. It quickly ran into trouble: one of the telescope's solar wings jammed as it was unfurling. Astronauts suited up for ...

The world's first telescope, crafted in 1608 by the Dutch eyeglass maker Hans Lippershey, led to stunning technologies that would later revolutionize our understanding of the universe. While his ...

"This will be one of the longest exposures of the sky ever taken." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA has revealed how its next ...

"We were amazed by the fact that these observatories can detect about 100 black holes just 250 million years after the Big Bang. Such detections would greatly help to constrain black hole formation ...

After more than 20 years in the making, we're finally about to see the first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, an astronomical facility with the largest digital camera ever built by ...

Update: NASA is now targeting a launch for Friday, March 7. Find the latest information on the mission here. How did the universe begin? How do planets form and galaxies develop? Could life exist ...