At nearly 10,000 feet above sea level - and almost 6,200 miles (10,000 kilometers) from Rome - you’ll find the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT), part of the Mount Graham ...

The world's most famous telescope is celebrating in style with new views of Mars, nebulas and a galaxy that reminds us of home. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with ...

Construction of the world's largest telescope has reached its highest point with assembly of the roof's dome and large sliding doors that will shield the observatory. The European Southern ...

Now, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers may have cracked this puzzle, finding the first evidence of a supermassive black hole at the heart of M83, also known as NGC 5236 ...

How can you fairly compare one telescope to another? It's all in the (angular) resolution. The entire point of introducing telescopes into astronomy is to make distant things more visible.

A conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez Space is phantasmagorical. Astronomers using the powerful ...

Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications ...

Telescopes are fun to point around the sky, but they’re even better when you have some idea of what you’re actually looking at. Experienced sky-gazers love nothing more than whipping out some ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. This week, the famed NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope turns 35 years-young. Launched on April 24 1990, the space telescope ...