NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made its first observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing that the comet ...

Two more of NASA's space telescopes got another look at comet 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar interloper that captured the world's ...

NASA's $10 billion space telescope studied the third interstellar object to enter the solar system, measuring the chemical ...

Scientists are trying to learn as much as they can about our third ever discovered interstellar visitor, 3I/Atlas, as it ...

The Butterfly Star is 525 light years away and only visible to use through the use of multiple imaging systems. The James ...

The smallest magnetic loops ever seen in the sun's corona — imaged for the first time by the National Science Foundation's ...

In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, Rowan Hooper explores the advances ...

Types of Telescopes Telescopes that capture visible light are known as optical telescopes, and the science done with them is called optical astronomy.

Webb’s powerful vision uncovered sparkling crystals, fiery jets, and complex molecules inside the Butterfly Nebula, offering a rare glimpse into the cosmic processes that forge planets and life.

Astronomers have constructed telescopes of every kind - massive observatories designed to pick up faint traces of light across space.

Modern-age telescopes have offered us a tantalizing view of what lies in the vast expanse of space, while also giving us glimpses of the universe’s past. However, making telescopes that can peek ...