The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...

A new observatory in Chile has produced a stunningly detailed image of a nebula resembling cotton candy, using the largest ...

The ring of light, known as an Einstein Ring, was discovered in September 2023 by Euclid, a space telescope on a six-year mission to map out the cosmos by observing billions of galaxies.

The Sh2-46 nebula has been captured by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. The nebula is ...

A distant galaxy 12 billion light-years away shows signs of being a jellyfish galaxy, with trailing streams of gas caused by ...

Due to how light travels, we can only see the most eye-popping details of space—like nebulas, supernovas, and black holes—with specialized telescopes.

The Hubble Space Telescope will still be NASA's primary visible light telescope after the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) later this week, experts at the space agency said. JWST is ...

Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted light from what appears to be the most distant star ever seen. It offers a glimpse into an early moment in the history of the universe.

No matter what level, from backyard stargazer to the greatest of astronomers, the more light we can gather from the heavens the better. Until a way is found to travel past the speed of light, which… ...

The $1.4B Thirty Meter Telescope pitted people against each other with some claiming it would desecrate the state' s ... Officials green-light massive telescope on sacred Hawaiian mountain.

The larger the telescope’s diameter, the more light it will collect. A 4-inch refractor, for example, is a great scope for planets, the Moon, and double stars.

A stargazer with a moderately sized telescope with a 20-cm aperture could potentially see visible light from near the black hole V404 Cygni, located about 7,800 light-years from Earth.