This opened the way for the great reflecting telescopes of ... Returning to single-aperture telescopes, many teams in Europe and North America are currently grappling with the challenges of ...

As of 2024, America is the unquestioned leader in astronomy, building powerful telescopes and making significant discoveries. A failure to step up now would cede our dominance in ways that would ...

Well, any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same, for the two principal types in use today were developed by giants: the refractor by Galileo and the reflector by Newton.

The two new stamps celebrate America’s continued exploration of deep space with ... Gas and dust within the image, captured ...

New U.S. Postal Service stamps released last week feature images captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.