Scientists using three telescopes spaced thousands of miles apart have caught the best look ever of the center of a distant quasar, an ultra-bright galaxy with a giant black hole at its core. By ...

A composite of galaxy cluster known as MACS0416 created using James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope imagery.

The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered its clearest view yet of a supermassive black hole's immediate surroundings, ...

That's the ethos behind Vaonis's Hestia. It's not a smart telescope, or even a normal telescope. Think of it as a lens to ...

Three of the VLT's massive domes were recently treated to this view of the Milky Way. Above the observatory, a soft green and red glow, known as airglow, helps to tinge the horizon. Airglow is a ...

Professors at Penn State helped develop the world’s most powerful survey telescope, which released its first images earlier this week from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The images capture ...

New telescope instruments now reveal distant galaxies in detail, reshaping how astronomers map dark matter, star formation, and the early universe.

China's Wide Field Survey Telescope has captured an amazing view of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Credit: Space.com | footage ...

Webb’s breathtaking view of the Helix Nebula shows a dying star’s final breath becoming the seeds of future worlds.

A novel imaging technique used for the first time on a ground-based telescope has helped a UCLA-led team of astronomers to achieve the sharpest-ever measurement of a star’s surrounding disk, revealing ...

Telescopes have come a long way since the first one was invented in 1608. So what's the most powerful telescope operating today, and how far can it see? When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

In 2026, astronauts will travel around the moon for the first time since the Apollo era, powerful new space telescopes will ...