On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...
Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.
“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field instrument scientist. “We [will] detect hundreds of millions of galaxies to ...
The most powerful space telescope ever built is peering into some of the deepest realms of the universe. It will also now ...
The world's largest telescope continues to take shape on the Cerro Armazones mountain in Chile's Atacama Desert.
Einstein predicted that massive objects bend light as it passes through their gravitational field. This week, a new telescope ...
The Einstein ring, formed as light from a distant galaxy bends to glow around another object in the foreground, could help ...
Crab Nebula: Located 6,500 light-years away from Earh, it is the highest-resolution image ever taken by the Hubble Space ...
Explore the astonishing findings from the Webb Telescope on the restless black hole Sagittarius A* at the Milky Way's center.
The Euclid space mission of the European Space Agency has spotted an Einstein ring in the galaxy NGC 6505, just 590 million ...