The University of Arizona’s oldest telescope officially turns 80 tomorrow. But far from being a museum piece, the 36-inch telescope now has a new telescope building, “so that in the distant ...

CORNING, N.Y. – You could say Marvin Bolt takes the long view. The science and technology curator at New York's Corning Museum of Glass is on a worldwide quest to track down the oldest ...

NASA's next-generation space telescope could confirm the existence of the oldest galaxy yet seen and peer back even further in time, close to the universe's birth, researchers say.

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have peered further back in time than ever before, spotting a galaxy that formed less than 500 million years after the birth of our universe, making it ...

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Oldest galaxy: Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have detected a galaxy that formed just 500 million years after the Big Bang, making it the most distant and oldest galaxy discovered so far.

The Hubble Space Telescope photographed what scientists say appears to be the oldest galaxy ever seen. It shows a collection of stars that formed 400 years after the Big Bang.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected the oldest "dead" galaxy ever observed, at just 700 million years after the Big Bang. The stalled-out relic defies explanation by our ...

The Hubble Telescope's tour of duty is coming to an end, ... The circled regions represent galaxies that are estimated to be between 12.9 to 13.1 billion years old.