Scientists have achieved a groundbreaking feat by detecting a 13-billion-year-old microwave signal from the Cosmic Dawn using ...

Data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of small galaxies that played a starring role in a cosmic ...

Telescopes in Chile have detected 13-billion-year-old light, scattered by the universe's first stars revealing insights into ...

But the universe’s initial moments after the cataclysmic explosion, including how its earliest stars influenced the light we ...

Living in today's age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars, with an eventual human mission to the red planet likely to ...

The summer triangle is an asterism that first appears in the eastern evening sky at the beginning of summer. It includes three very bright stars that are in three different constellations. The stars ...

In his 2006 book, Galileo’s Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy, Biagioli chronicles how Galileo, then a 46-year-old professor in Padua, parlayed his discoveries and technical ...

Ivezić is the 59-year-old director of the Vera ... This dual nature of the telescope dates back to its inception; after inventing his, Galileo wrote to the ruler of Venice about its ability ...

While Galileo's small looking ... the Keck Observatory is more than 15 years old, it has essentially the same design and setup of the more monstrous telescopes under planning or construction ...

English astronomer Thomas Harriot made the first telescope observations of sunspots in late 1610 and recorded them in his notebooks, as did Galileo around the same time, although the latter did ...

Image Title: “Galileo offering his telescope to three women (possibly ... The main cluster is about 50 million years old; the smaller cluster is only 4 million years old.” ...

Galileo relied on a telescope for many of the observations ... As for the price of a 414-year-old book, Dean said the library paid a price to purchase the book, but argues it’s now invaluable ...