A WORLD-ending apocalypse will take place 35 years – according to a resurfaced letter by revolutionary scientist Sir Isaac ...

IT is reported from Italy that three optical prisms formerly belonging to Sir Isaac Newton have now found a permanent resting place in the Museum of Treviso. The prisms in question were originally ...

Over the next few centuries, telescopes evolved significantly. Isaac Newton introduced the reflecting telescope in 1668, which used mirrors instead of lenses to overcome chromatic aberration—a flaw in ...

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The $1.4 billion Euclid Space Telescope captured an Einstein Ring in one of its early test images, according to a team of scientists who recently studied the imagery. The ring sits in the galaxy ...

It is named after Sir Isaac Newton, who was a famous physicist and astronomer, known, amongst other things as being the man who discovered gravity. Today the telescope is used for research and ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope managed to capture an incredible image of a galaxy that looks an awful lot like a bullseye. "This was a serendipitous discovery," said Imad Pasha, the lead researcher ...

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun If you’ve ever done any public outreach work for astronomy—if you’ve given ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy, astronomers reported Monday. The halo, known as an Einstein ring ...

The giant, 40-ft. space telescope resting in the airtight, climate-controlled clean-room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., wants nothing to do with the microscopic dust ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years of the universe. NASA’s 2 stuck ...

Image: NASA, ESA, Imad Pasha (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale) The Hubble Space Telescope just imaged a massive bullseye in space: LEDA 1313424, or the Bullseye Galaxy, which is about 2.5 times the ...