The Kepler Space Telescope, named for astronomer Johannes Kepler, was NASA's first exoplanet hunting telescope. It launched ...

Dr. Caitlin Casey, an observational astronomer, has recently joined the physics department at UC Santa Barbara. She co-leads the C.O.S.M.O.S. collaboration — a project distinguished by its deep ...

The world's largest digital camera focuses on the Virgo Cluster, showing never-before-seen detail in our universe ...

The telescope achieved superior resolving power and produced clear images of the surface of the Moon. Telescopes have been used to peer out into the universe for more than 400 years. In the early ...

The Inouye Solar Telescope's visible tuner filter offers dynamic look ... our tumultuous sun was relatively quiet in the late 1600s Why our tumultuous sun was relatively quiet in the late 1600s.

The so-called "Extremely Large Telescope" is being built on a mountaintop in the Andes at an elevation of about 3,000 meters. And it really is extremely large. The primary mirror will be 39 meters ...

When Galileo perfected the astronomical telescope in the early 1600s, the universe opened up before us. Telescopes allow us to see dimmer objects because they can collect more light and more ...

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 Visible ...

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Hubble Space Telescope's 35th anniversary: See NASA's new out-of-this-world images The Hubble Space Telescope, launched 35 years ago, has blown our minds with its striking images of far-away ...

Researchers were able to determine that the light source seen by the telescope is over 1,600 light-years across, proving that it is from "young stars" and not from a black hole.

The Kepler Space Telescope, named for astronomer Johannes Kepler, was NASA's first exoplanet hunting telescope. It launched on March 6, 2009, with the goal of observing more than 100,000 stars in ...