Galileo and Sarpi took Doge Dona and his advisers to the top of the tower of St Mark’s and pointed the new telescope towards Padua. The doge was astounded to be able to see the tower at the centre of ...

Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016. Dr. Rubin’s work persuaded astronomers of the existence of dark ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the largest digital camera ever made. High atop Chile’s 2,700-meter Cerro ...

Scientists are deploying two telescopes to detect high-energy neutrinos, also known as ghost particles, under the Mediterranean Sea. The two telescopes are part of the Cubic Kilometre Neutrino ...

Since its launch on Christmas Day, 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has proven its worth year after year. 2024 is no exception. Here are just five times the ultrapowerful telescope has ...

On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the ... that formed in the first 700 million years of cosmic history.

In July, physicists at Germany’s Forschungszentrum Jülich and Korea’s IBS Center for Quantum Nanoscience (QNS) reported that they had fabricated a quantum sensor that can detect the electric and ...

Unprecedented power output: 700 times as efficient as the hydrogen engines. The power delivery of the nitrogen engine is striking and is a work of engineering genius. Hydrogen engines are eclipsed, ...

The latest projection shows the state will face a nearly $700 million shortfall. That’s a slight improvement over an earlier forecast which estimated the shortfall would be nearly $1 billion. Colorado ...

The James Webb telescope has focused its attention on an oddball space rock lurking between Jupiter and Neptune. The unusual "centaur," named 2060 Chiron, has features of both comets and asteroids.

consists of two telescopes made up of glass baubles arranged on vertical cables. Each strand dangles in the water like a pearl necklace that’s up to 700 meters long. Each bauble, a pressure ...