That's over two-and-a-half times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope's mirror, meaning Webb has six times the light-collecting area. Capturing more light allows Webb to see more distant ...

So right there, the resolution of the James Webb Space Telescope is 600 times better than the human eye. To give some fun examples, the James Webb could see the details of a coin placed 40 ...

If you point a telescope at the moon, you can see some features like mountains or even individual boulders. You have a certain linear resolution when looking at the moon. But when you point your ...

Looking to step into stargazing or upgrade your telescope without breaking the bank ... makes it easier to pick out constellations. Why not see if you can spot Leo and Ursa Major?

The Hubble Space Telescope is a masterwork of engineering and human ingenuity. Hubble is comparable in size and weight to a large school bus, but its contributions to science and astronomy could ...

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 ...

As the Hubble Space Telescope approaches 35 years since its launch, marking over three decades of incredible images of the universe and science, NASA and its partner, the European Space Agency, are ...

STScI is responsible for the delivery of data captured by HST to astronomers. Technology: It uses optical science to capture images. HST is a very big space telescope. It is capable of collecting ...

But the latest budget proposal, if approved by Congress, could be a death knell for the already-constructed space telescope. "This is nuts," Simons Foundation president and former co-chair of ...