The celebrated English scientist Sir Isaac Newton was born on January 4, 1643, in a small village in England named ...

Credit: Galileo Galilei, 1610 Within sixty years, Isaac Newton had built his own new and improved reflecting telescope with a curved mirror, coated with a fine layer of reflective silver metal ...

Dobsonians are reflecting telescopes constructed from cheap materials ... Dobsonians employed the same simple design that Isaac Newton dreamed up when he wanted to study the great comet of ...

Isaac Newton is perhaps the foundational archetype of a lone genius: pairing astonishing intelligence with abysmal ...

The most powerful solar telescope in the world has recorded ... pictured here, consists of two reflecting plates, employed for measuring small differences in the flux of light for different ...

"I think this discovery will motivate scientists to look for more examples of this type of event." Astronomers have caught a black hole far from the center of its home galaxy ripping a star to ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 35th anniversary in space today, but even as a senior citizen in the spacecraft population, it is showing no sign of slowing down. "Hubble is more ...

The viral reel series, "If Snapchat Existed Back Then," shows Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and others using Snapchat. These AI-generated images blend history, pop culture, and humor. Social media ...

To mark the 35th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, Space.com looks at some of the most scientifically significant images that have emerged from the observatory's lens.