Sometimes, in order to support an idea, you first have to discredit alternative, competing ideas that could take resources ...

More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its ...

The world's most powerful telescopes, including the James Webb Space Telescope and FAST, are revolutionizing our ...

Scientists have achieved a groundbreaking feat by detecting a 13-billion-year-old microwave signal from the Cosmic Dawn using Earth-based telescopes in Chile. This discovery, made by the CLASS ...

Each time, these new telescopes have revealed something unseen before. Time for an overview: What distinguishes the Hubble, James Webb, and Euclid space telescopes, as well as the ground-based Vera ...

As a ground-based telescope, the Vera Rubin Observatory will be a perfect companion to space-based telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope, as its sweeping view will completely scan the ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), an enormous ground-based telescope currently under construction in Chile's Atacama Desert, is one vital step ...

For decades, scientists have struggled to see the outermost layer of the Sun, called the corona, with enough detail to unlock ...

Space-based telescopes such as Planck have the advantage of clearer sight, since Earth's atmosphere isn't gumming up the view. But it's substantially easier to operate a telescope from the ground.

YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

The European Space Agency said Wednesday that scientists have discovered what might be only the third known interstellar ...