On July 11, 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope finished its commissioning and commenced science operations. In the three ...

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Learn how scientists found the universe's missing matter hiding in a massive cosmic filament stretching 23.5 million light-years between galaxy clusters.

Jupiter's stunning auroras are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth, as pictured in new images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.

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 ...

The telescope may well have outdone itself by revealing evidence of life on a world about 120 light years from Earth.

With international travel now more feasible, the decision was eventually made to relocate the Isaac Newton Telescope to darker and clearer skies in 1984.

The Gemini South telescope recently captured an image of an asteroid with a 1 in 48 chance of Earth impact by 2032.

Scientists didn't expect that stars would be able to still form in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, which the James Webb Telescope recently imaged.

Patricia Márquez, Oibar Martínez, Markus Gaug, Jose Miguel Miranda, Risk Assessment of Environmental Conditions Affecting the Useful Lifetime of Cherenkov Telescopes at El Roque de Los Muchachos ...

Many people have heard of the Keck Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope, but few realize just how many powerful telescopes we have in the world, and in space. Because the objects they study ...

Here are the five most powerful telescopes out today—and five more that will define the future of astronomy. The Five Most Powerful Telescopes Today Keck Observatory, began science operations in ...