The journey of astronomical telescopes began in the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei crafted his first refracting ...

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New ...

When Pagan and DePasquale first receive the images, they appear in black and white. The colors are added to the image later, ...

A team of astronomers sifted through James Webb Space Telescope data from multiple surveys to compile one of the largest ...

Photos from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed more than 40 stars within the gravitationally lensed "Dragon Arc" ...

When the James Webb Telescope came online in 2021 ... Then, Albert Einstein solved the tension by coming up with the theory of relativity, which explains how massive objects cause distortions ...

Astronomers are raising concerns about the impact of light pollution from a renewable energy project on the world’s most ...

While indirect evidence gathered by other telescopes suggested that a neutron star had formed after the supernova, the study offers the most concrete evidence for that theory to date. Using ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that a new feature in the universe—not a flaw in telescope measurements—may be behind the decadelong mystery of why the universe is ...