Telescopes

"A great deal of remediation" will be needed at Kitt Peak National Observatory as a few astronomers return to the site to help it recover from wildfire damage, its managing authority says.Essential personnel are returning to the Arizona…

With the release of the James Webb Space Telescope's first images on July 12 (and a sneaky reveal by US President Joe Biden on July 11), NASA, ESA and the Canadian Space Agency proved the $10 billion, 1-million-miles-from-Earth, two…

A group of angels listening for prayers is actually Stephan's Quintet, a compact galaxy group discovered in 1877. The galaxies interlock in a dance 290 million light-years away from Earth.Astronomers and space enthusiasts have waited for…

Our planetary neighborhood is a fascinating place, with each world exhibiting its own unique identity. Whether it's the phases of Venus, great storms in the Jovian cloud tops, or the enchanting rings of Saturn, there's so much variety…

The universe was born in darkness 13.8 billion years ago, and even after the first stars and galaxies blazed into existence a few hundred million years later, these too stayed dark. Their brilliant light, stretched by time and the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Nearly six months after the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have started receiving images from the powerful telescope, showing the far reaches of the universe. NASA…

South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope. Credit: South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO)An international team of astronomers has combined the power of 64 radio telescope dishes for the first time to detect the faint signatures of…

Astronomers shared a trove of images of galaxies created from data from four now-retired missions. Cosmic dust contains the building materials for forming…

NASA’s next-generation space observatory has sustained its first noticeable micrometeoroid impact less than six months after launch, but the agency isn’t too concerned. The James Webb Space Telescope, also known as Webb or JWST,…

New space and ground-based telescope observations have revealed what's behind this difference in tone. The most distant planets from the sun in our solar system, Neptune and Uranus have similar sizes, masses and atmospheric conditions.…