In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects.

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

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

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its first images as it begins its 10-year mission conducting the Legacy Survey of ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

"While people saw a big spot in Jupiter as early as they started stargazing through telescopes in the 1600s, it is still unclear whether they were looking at a different storm," NASA explains.

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 ...