Optical sciences professor John Greivenkamp thought students were in danger of losing the connection to their field's beginnings. It was time to start collecting old telescopes to connect them with ...

Since its launch in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has made revolutionary achievements in astronomy. The new Ja mes Webb Space Telescope is popular, but Hubble has skills, like capturing visible and ...

NASA is still assessing proposals from SpaceX and eight other companies for boosting the Hubble Space Telescope into a higher orbit. But the 33-year-old telescope is not the only member of the NASA ...

NASA cited a number of risks as to why SpaceX wouldn’t be allowed to visit the 34-year-old telescope. Hubble has seen better days—and with NASA formally rejecting SpaceX’s commercial repair offer, ...

An angled view of the solar system with main asteroid belt discoveries in green and near-Earth objects in light blue. B612 Asteroid Institute / University of Washington DiRAC Institute / OpenSpace ...

NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) just released a stunning image of the NGC 346 star cluster from the Hubble Space Telescope — but it isn't quite "new." Rather, it's an old photo from the ...

After launching into space six months ago, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently released its first exploration images — and they’re absolutely stunning. NASA's new James Webb Telescope sails ...

STAMFORD — A telescope described as "a wonder of the space age" is moving away from its Stamford home of 57 years. The so-called Gregory-Maksutov telescope was lifted from its usual resting place near ...

Despite some daunting setbacks, executives with the Thirty Meter Telescope aren’t giving up on their plans to build it on Mauna Kea, and are investigating the possibility the observatory could be ...

Astronomers normally observe galaxies by observing light these objects emit, but some tricky galaxies require a different approach. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Three new candidate galaxies, which look like fuzzy red dots, discovered in images collected by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. One of these galaxies, left, may have contained as many stars as the ...