The research group observed a galaxy nearly 6.5 billion light-years from Earth; when the universe was half its current age.

Nearly 415 years ago to the day astronomer Galileo Galilei discovered the moons surrounding Jupiter looking through his homemade telescope.

Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after Galileo Galilei died. Their death and birth, exactly 300 years apart on ...

On January 7, Orthodox believers celebrate the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. The feast recalls an important event in the ...

Joan of Arc was as religious as a person can get without turning into a stained-glass window. When she was just 13 she claimed to have been visited by three saints – Michael, Catherine and Margaret.

Overall, this telescope is a great choice for beginning your celestial journey. It's affordable, lightweight and easy to navigate — and Celestron goes the extra mile to assist in your ...

The sun was once personified as a god, a symbol of a perfect cosmos. The occasional detection of dark blemishes was ...

Even small asteroids can do a lot of damage—and new research shows the James Webb Space Telescope is adept at spotting the tiniest of space rocks. A time-lapse of images from NASA’s James Webb ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of a baby, Milky Way-like galaxy that formed more than 13 billion years ago. This "Firefly Sparkle" galaxy could reveal how our own galaxy evolved.

The image, using data taken by several space telescopes, shows a star cluster called NGC 602, located in a nearby satellite galaxy of the Milky Way called the Small Magellanic Cloud. The image ...

In that year, the inventor and civil servant Henry Cole commissioned the artist John Callcott Horsley to design a card to help Cole handle his Christmas correspondence more efficiently.

Often referred to as field scopes or digiscopes, they bridge the gap between a monocular and a telescope, offering impressive magnifications while remaining compact and portable. The standout ...