Just how big would a telescope need to be to actually see an alien world in detail? The James Webb Telescope just took a photo of a newly discovered exoplanet. Exciting stuff but the raw image just ...

The article discusses three main telescope types: refractors (best for bright objects, portable), reflectors (best for faint objects, larger apertures), and catadioptrics (compromise between aperture ...

With just a small or medium-sized telescope, skygazers can easily observe planets. You’ll be surprised how much of our solar system you can see! And you don’t need a dark sky to view all of our solar ...

In our day and time the title of world's most capable space telescope falls upon the James Webb. Launched back in 2021, the impressive instrument has already managed to change our understanding of the ...

How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a camera so powerful it can see light from galaxies that formed more than 13 ...

Scientists have scored a pristine view of a pair of exotic worlds orbiting a star more than 300 light-years away — one with sand-like clouds and another surrounded in space by moon-making material.

For hundreds of years, telescopes have allowed us to map the stars and study the great mysteries of the cosmos. Astronomers knew there were other planets in our solar system even before telescopes, ...

Earth’s turbulent atmosphere makes it hard to detect new planets from the ground. Astronomer Rebecca Jensen-Clem is working ...

Astronomers have captured something extraordinary: the first-ever direct photo of a baby planet growing inside a dusty ring ...

A study led by Howard Chen looks to explain what NASA space telescopes are missing in the search for life beyond Earth.

This article first appeared on Wired.com. On August 10, six planets — Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune — will line up in an arc in the night sky. Four of these planets — Mercury, ...