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 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 ...

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 ...

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His presentation will cover a history of lens-type telescopes and how and why they became larger and larger. Reflector and refractor lenses have provided more viewing of the universe. “Telescope ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has identified the most distant known galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0, which existed 290 million years after the Big Bang, breaking previous distance records.

Prof Anderson captured the scientific sounds within a framework inspired by William Lawes' Sunrise, which was written in the 1600s. The Lovell telescope is now involved in studies of cosmic ...

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 ...