John Steele Gordon on “Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party” by Edward Dolnick.

German astronomer Simon Marius is best remembered for his disputes with Galileo Galilei over priority for discovering Jupiter ...

It was in 1609 that he heard of an instrument that had been ... The argument of the scholars Galileo refers to was that ...

In "Pillars of Creation," Richard Panek shows how the James Webb Space Telescope is transforming our view of the cosmos.

This dual nature of the telescope dates back to its inception; after inventing his, Galileo wrote to the ruler of Venice about its ability to spy enemy ships. He also vowed to keep the device a ...

This striking new perspective on an icon of the deep sky comes from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which has rendered the spiral galaxy that looks like a broad-brimmed Mexican hat both in high ...

But for astronomers and stargazers using ground-based telescopes, the gas giant's seven rings are about to be unobservable for a short time from Earth's vantage. Why? Well, every 13-15 years ...

A brand new image snapped by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveals the intricate details of the core of the distant "Sombrero Galaxy." This galaxy, officially known as Messier 104 (M104 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has potentially smashed one of its own records again —- if scientists are correct, this trailblazing spacecraft may have glimpsed the earliest galaxies in the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's brand-new image of the Sombrero Galaxy casts this city of stars in a new light — mid-infrared light, to be precise — and reveals clumps of dust in a mottled ...

Peculiar James Webb Space Telescope observations seem to show gargantuan black holes in the earliest moments of the universe. New research may explain how they formed, thanks to primordial "seeds".

The Hubble law implies that the universe is expanding. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, launched into low Earth orbit in 1990, has been a vital instrument for exploring the universe for over three ...