"We were pretty shocked to see this level of detail," Jacob Jencson of Caltech/IPAC in Pasadena, the principal investigator of the science program, said. Josh Peek of the Space Telescope Science ...

Associate Administrator at NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, in a tweet. “After initial assessments, the team found the telescope is still performing at a level that exceeds all mission ...

Assan Dina, Hindu millionaire, and his wife, formerly Miss Mary Wallace-Shillito, of Cincinnati, Ohio, will give to France the largest observatory in the world with a telescope more powerful than ...

We asked award-winning astrophotographer, Josh Dury, for tips on selecting the best telescopes, and he told Live Science "There are telescopes tailored to all sorts of celestial objects.

In Chile, the Vera C. Rubin Telescope, named after another pioneering female astronomer and funded by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy, is a wide-field telescope ...

Buying a telescope is a big step, especially if you're not sure what all those terms - f/ratio, magnification, go-to - mean. So, to eliminate confusion and make sure you understand what you're ...

“We will have a package that will consist of a number of full color images,” said Klaus Pontoppidan, Webb project scientist, Space Telescope Science Institute. “Each of them will reveal a ...

Interstellar dust clouds and inky stretches of deep space can appear dull to ordinary telescopes. But to a car-size telescope 26 million miles (41.8 million kilometers) from Earth, they are alive ...

Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed ... Michael Roston is a senior staff editor for science. He was previously a social media editor for The Times and a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has caught a napping monster black hole in the early universe. The cosmic giant is slumbering after a massive meal like a reveler on Christmas Day. The James Webb ...

Explore these orbiting pioneers and learn what they've discovered. 3 min read The Hubble Space Telescope was designed to free astronomers of a limitation that has plagued them since the days of ...