The celebrated English scientist Sir Isaac Newton was born on January 4, 1643, in a small village in England named Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth. Newton later on became one of the most celebrated ...

Credit: Galileo Galilei, 1610 Within sixty years, Isaac Newton had built his own new and improved reflecting telescope with a curved mirror, coated with a fine layer of reflective silver metal ...

Isaac Newton is perhaps the foundational archetype of a lone genius: pairing astonishing intelligence with abysmal interpersonal skills. "If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be ...

Like, that's gigantic for an optical telescope. It is nearly four times larger than the largest operational reflecting telescopes in the world. The Europeans are in a contest, of sorts ...

During its 35 years of orbiting the Earth, the Hubble Space Telescope has transmitted endless streams of magnificent images, confirmed the existence of "dark matter," and helped track a vagabond ...

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.

The Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 35th anniversary in space today, but even as a senior citizen in the spacecraft population, it is showing no sign of slowing down. "Hubble is more ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon Titan, capturing the first evidence of cloud formation in this moon's northern hemisphere. Titan is the ...

"This is a great opportunity to see images from the newest space telescope." NASA is seeking the public's help to classify thousands of galaxies imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found water swirling in the air of a distant alien planet, a new study reports. That exotic world is TOI-421 b, a boiling-hot "sub-Neptune" orbiting a ...