The world's largest telescope is almost as big as your house—and it’s unlocking the universe’s biggest mysteries.

such as NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope. The mission will use a technique called spectroscopy to measure the distance to 450 million galaxies in the nearby universe.

Spherex won’t see galaxies in exquisite detail like NASA’s larger and more elaborate Hubble and Webb space telescopes, with their narrow fields of view. Instead of counting galaxies or ...

Dwarf planet Pluto ranks as the biggest KBO. The new Hubble breakthrough offers key insights into a KBO formation theory in which the three small, rocky bodies would not have formed as the result of ...

Illustration of the Hubble Space Telescope over the Earth. Credit: ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen) Hubble Space Telescope Finds Kuiper Belt Duo May Be Trio Predicting the motion of ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered 36 new dwarf galaxies around Andromeda and ongoing star formation within them, contradicting previous theories. They appear to undergo unique evolution ...

The best telescopes allow you to observe the night sky in more detail. The best telescopes unlock the wonders of the night sky right from your backyard and beyond. Bring the Moon and planets into ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of the spiral galaxy UGC 5460, located 60 million light-years away, which has experienced two recent supernovae: SN 2011ht and SN 2015as.

“It’s easy to romanticize Hubble and his discovery of the universe beyond the Milky Way galaxy,” said Jeff Rich, in a press conference at the 245th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in ...

In October 2014, she took up a Hubble Fellowship at Yale University, working alongside Marla Geha and her research group. She officially joined the University of Surrey as a lecturer at the same time, ...