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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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.

Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jupiter's dazzling auroras are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth, new images from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal. The solar system's largest planet ...