During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and color to show ...

Richard Fishacre challenged the scientific orthodoxy of his day, and contemporary astrophysics has vindicated his position.

A ‘selfie’ taken during Webb’s testing on Earth. Ball Aerospace After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope was built with a flaw, and because it's a million miles away, we can't repair it, but we can ...

A century ago, a star in Andromeda named V1 launched a revolution in astronomy, revealing its true immensity and the origin ...

Starfront Observatories allows amateur astronomers to rent a spot for their telescopes and photograph the cosmos over a high-speed data connection. In a year and a half, Starfront Observatories in ...

In a remarkable feat of astronomical innovation, scientists have employed a unique “hack” on the Giant Magellan Telescope to reveal a strikingly lopsided star. This ingenious adaptation of fiber optic ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Size matters for a telescope’s image resolution. The bigger the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the clearest picture yet of how galaxies formed in the early universe.

Two Sydney PhD students have pulled off a remarkable space science feat from Earth—using AI-driven software to correct image blurring in NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Their innovation, called ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion-powered suns, but enormous “supermassive dark stars” powered by dark ...