The birthplace of the bicycle, steam engine and jet engine, the UK has a long history of innovation. Here’s how key ...

A powerful new observatory is the best hope yet for finding the elusive Planet 9, a large planet that some scientists say is ...

Telescopes Allow Visual Time Travel . It may sound like science fiction, but I'm not exaggerating when I say that telescopes ...

The Bay Sages heard from the Delta Astronomical Society (DAS) during its monthly meeting on Thursday. DAS Newsletter Editor ...

GS-z13-1, marks the earliest sign yet spotted of the era of cosmic reionization at 330 million years after the Big Bang.

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified an ancient and faraway galaxy that provides evidence that an ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered 55 Cancri e, a super-Earth located 41 light-years away. This planet, five times larger than Earth, has extreme temperatures reaching 2,400°C and ...

Back when the telescope was invented by Hans Lippershey in 1608, it was done so by experimenting with putting lenses together. Today, a telescope's optical design involves complex computer ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has just released the first batch of data from the groundbreaking Euclid space telescope, which was built to study the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy ...

Introduction: Apart from discussing general issues related to the application of freeform telescopes, this work presents a design of ultra-compact high-resolution freeform telescope dedicated to ...

Extraordinary images from the Euclid space telescope have captured 26 million galaxies, some as far off as 10.5 billion light years. Euclid was launched by the European Space Agency (ESA ...

A conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez You don't see this every day. "Our hope with this kind of ...