Want to see Mars at its brightest in January? The best telescopes for seeing planets give you the clearest views of our celestial neighbors. The new year is a great time to test out your ...
Peer through the Yerkes Great Refractor, a telescope that awed the likes of Albert Einstein, Edwin Hubble, and Carl Sagan. It’s still the largest refracting telescope in the world.
The two 40-inch lenses, one made of Crown glass the other of Flint glass, each weighs 500 pounds and create the world’s largest refracting telescope. The nonprofit that now owns it has spent millions ...
Our universe appears to be expanding about eight percent faster than initially assumed possible, according to new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope. There has been a long ...
New measurements from the Webb telescope – Nasa’s most powerful space observatory – could help explain one of the deepest mysteries of the cosmos, according to the researchers behind them.