The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Milestone recognizes decades of innovation that has helped shape modern ...

Until then, the largest optical telescope in the Western Hemisphere had been the 200-inch (5.1-meter) Hale Telescope, built in 1949 on Mount Palomar in California and used by Edwin Hubble in the ...

New optical technologies have revolutionized astronomy, from the invention of the telescope 400 years ago to more recent developments of adaptive optics and segmented mirrors. The next disruptive ...

The exoplanet, a planet beyond our solar system, has been dubbed TWA 7b after NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured ...

We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...

NASA's new "CODEX" telescope has snapped its first photos of the sun's outer atmosphere, revealing previously imperceptible ...

This has been called the golden age of astronomy, and there’s a new telescope on the block — or, more precisely, on top of a ...

A planetary system described as abnormal, chaotic, and strange by researchers has come into clearer view with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Using Webb's NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera ...

The astronomers who operate powerful Vera C. Rubin observatory released debut images June 23, 2025, showcasing just exactly what the instrument can do ...

The James Webb Space telescope captures a direct image of exoplanets YSES-1b and YSES-1c with its Near-Infrared Spectrograph instrument. Credit: NASA/ ESA / CSA / Hoch et al. / Nature ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists found a dusty disk surrounding the dying white dwarf creating the famous Ring Nebula.

Operating far past its expected life span, the telescope captures data that answer some of space’s biggest questions—and make glorious images. A colorized composite image captures the Veil ...