The Subaru Telescope, operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, has been registered as "Essential ...

The telescope began as a relatively simple device, born out of optical experimentation. It combined a series of lenses and mirrors to collect and magnify light, allowing the user to see far away ...

"Space Telescope History Project"--Cover. "These items from ... were selected by the Space Telescope History Project, a joint enterprise of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, ...

Vera Rubin Observatory, the newly built home of the largest telescope in the world, unveiled its first test imagery on Monday, including never-before-seen aspects of outer space. Rubin, due to its ...

"We were amazed by the fact that these observatories can detect about 100 black holes just 250 million years after the Big ...

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than images from ground-based telescopes. In August of that year, Hubble made one of ...

Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk galaxies from up to 11 billion years ago. Just like artifacts excavated ...

"It's a discovery that underlines things may be different from what they appear to us at first glance." Astronomers using the ...