How can you fairly compare one telescope to another? It's all in the (angular) resolution. The entire point of introducing ...

A conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez Space is phantasmagorical. Astronomers using the powerful ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has pointed its infrared optics at the 'Crystal Ball Nebula' NGC 1514, a planetary nebula ...

These solar binoculars offer 20x magnification for observing sunspots and solar eclipses. Read our in-depth review.

In preparation for the summer road trip season, historian Allen Pietrobon joins Smithsonian Associates on April 28 to discuss ...

The Masters venue has a reputation for old-fashioned stuffiness but when we look down the other end of the telescope at the ...

With this research, according to William Balmer, an astronomer at Johns Hopkins University and leader of the research, "we want to understand our solar system by seeing how it is similar to or ...

There has to be a place for the old stuff, right? Correct. After college, I tested fabrics for Gore-Tex. I was doing a summer course of wilderness skills training in the Alaskan backcountry ...

“As long as there are cows and horses around, you’ll need someone like me,” our wrangler said when I asked if someone could earn a living cowboying these days. My granddaughters and I were ...

A jaw-dropping new space image shows one galaxy hiding behind another. The rare cosmic phenomenon, called an Einstein ring, occurs when massive objects can bend light due to their gravitational ...

Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies ... The universe is 13.8 billion years old. Euclid’s technical wizardry allows it to see galaxies that formed as far back ...

Nothing beats the joy of a giant, juicy beef burger served the old-fashioned way ... See what it looks like today. James Webb telescope takes emergency look at 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 ...