F or centuries, dating back to long before the invention of the telescope, people have reported odd flashes that sometimes ...

The critical issue -- The technology of grinding crystals in antiquity and the Middle Ages -- The reading stones (lapides ad legendum) -- The first dioptrical vision aids -- Glass techniques in the ...

McKinley Museum planetarium director Suzie Dills says her trip to the Galileo museum in Italy was educational, and a thrill.

On December 25, 2021, the largest and most powerful space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, was launched into space ...

During its 35 years of orbiting the Earth, the Hubble Space Telescope has transmitted endless streams of magnificent images, confirmed the existence of "dark matter," and helped track a vagabond black ...

Astronomy’s newest telescope is a cosmic paparazzi, taking about 1,000 pictures of the southern sky every night from a mountaintop in Chile. With giant mirrors concentrating starlight into a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured an unprecedented look inside a vibrant and glittering cluster of newborn stars drifting in the cosmos — some nearly eight times hotter than the sun. The ...

NASA's powerful James Webb Space telescope has revealed a colorful spread of stars and cosmic dust in the Milky Way's most active star-forming region. The telescope was studying Sagittarius B2, a ...