Telescopes orbiting Earth can peer billions ... "It's a tough place to work," said Phil Puxley, of the National Science Foundation. "The air pressure there is almost 50 percent that at sea level ...

Interstellar dust clouds and inky stretches of deep space can appear dull to ordinary telescopes. But to a car-size telescope 26 million miles (41.8 million kilometers) from Earth, they are alive ...

This story appears in the July 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. When you start stargazing with a telescope, two experiences typically ensue. First, you are astonished by the view ...

Explore these orbiting pioneers and learn what they've discovered. 3 min read The Hubble Space Telescope was designed to free astronomers of a limitation that has plagued them since the days of ...

With next-generation telescopes, tiny space probes ... This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. In her office on the 17th floor of MIT’s Building 54, Sara ...

This story appears in the May 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... The survey, which launches in 2020, will employ telescopes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres to scan the ...

NASA’s Webb telescope is rewriting the story of space and time NASA’s Webb telescope is rewriting the story of space and time These 5 asteroids pose the greatest risk to Earth These 5 ...