Evidence suggests ancient civilizations, including the Greeks, may have had early optical knowledge and devices like ...

The structure is nearly 600 million light-years from Earth and is an early display of the nascent dark matter telescope's ...

Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

NASA wants to view the Big Bang with this behemoth, so it's saying goodbye to the James Webb Telescope. The new one redefines ...

Astronomers from Turkey and Japan have performed optical observations of a recently discovered nearby supernova remnant known ...

"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...

An LSU-led team would like to use a high-flying Antarctic balloon-borne infrared telescope to detect the chemical makeup of ...

For budding astronomers and space experts, telescopes bridge the gap between them and space. To take your love of the planets ...

Observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope and the VLT have revealed jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause ...

Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the ...