In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects.

Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or so ...

Standing in front of a giant projected bar graph, he solemnly explained the possible fate of the world's most powerful eye on ...

The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the ...

Felton Davis offered thousands of strangers a close-up view of the Moon and planets orbiting New York City. Now he’s passing ...

We’re essentially opening a new window on the transient universe” said Matthew Siebert of the Space Telescope Science Institute, capturing the awe that swept through the astrophysics community after ...

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John R. Casani, a longtime Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer, project manager and researcher, died at the age of 92 last ...

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I was looking forward to writing a tribute to clear summer skies and great summer stargazing in the Pacific Northwest.

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