Evidence suggests ancient civilizations, including the Greeks, may have had early optical knowledge and devices like ...

But it’s the historic telescopes, once among the largest in the country, that are the true gems. John Ventre, the observatory historian, led my family on a tour of the facility and a peek ...

Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years ...

Walking to the roof of Carnegie Science Hall to visit the college's observatory feels like being in a boat — the strange ...

And if you're going to have a giant historic telescope, open to the public. In some dark, you know, out of the way places. And you're there for long enough, you're going to have drama. And the ...

They’re working to build a new telescope to track asteroids that could be on a collision course with Earth. “Recycling the history is one of the most important parts of this project,” said ...

Sir Isaac Newton once wrote, in what must be one of the most oft-quoted lines in the history of science ... any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same, for the two ...

"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...

SPHEREx is a groundbreaking NASA telescope that will map the entire sky in infrared, revealing insights into cosmic inflation ...

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

The Hubble telescope is yielding new clues to the evolutionary history of Andromeda, and it looks markedly different from the Milky Way's history. Without Andromeda as a proxy for spiral galaxies ...

The Spitzer Space Telescope mission will soon end, and NASA is using this as an opportunity to celebrate all the success the telescope has enjoyed during its lengthy tenure in space. In a new post ...