The brand new Vera Rubin telescope is about to begin its 10-year mission to offer the newest cosmic perspective we've had in ...

The Kepler Space Telescope, named for astronomer Johannes Kepler, was NASA's first exoplanet hunting telescope. It launched on March 6, 2009, with the goal of observing more than 100,000 stars in ...

Galileo started this quest over 400 years ago, and scientists finally were able to peek at one of the biggest mysteries of ...

In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects.

We’re essentially opening a new window on the transient universe” said Matthew Siebert of the Space Telescope Science Institute, capturing the awe that swept through the astrophysics community after ...

While Galileo didn't invent the telescope, he is the person most inextricably tied to its use and development. The field of optics had become so established, and the principles behind Lippershey's ...