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The 11-inch, 1845 refracting Merz und Mahler Telescope. (Image provided) Cincinnati historian and world traveler Bonnie Speeg sent a note this past week: “I just emailed you a PDF of the ...

Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to light with the formation of the first stars and galaxies is a key turning point in the universe’s development, known as the Cosmic ...

For the first time, scientists have used ground-based telescopes to look back more than 13 billion years and observe how the universe’s first stars affected ancient light left over from the Big ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile houses the world's most powerful survey telescope with the largest digital camera ever built by humans, and it is about to drop its first pictures. The US ...

When we were kids, it was a rite of passage to read the newly arrived Edmund catalog and dream of building our own telescope. One of our friends lived near a University, and they even had a summer … ...

A state-of-the-art telescope nearly 25 years in the making will finally reveal its first images on Monday, June 23, and you can watch the event in realtime. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, perched ...

Telescopes team up to probe distant worldsResearchers are now using the JWST in tandem with the Hubble and other telescopes to make multiwavelength observations of worlds outside our solar system. The ...

In what can be called a truly unique accomplishment, scientists seem to have detected a 13 billion-year-old signal using Earth-based telescopes. This feat allow them to see how the first stars ...

The sharpest images of the universe are created when radio telescopes around the world work together. For the first time, the world's largest network of radio telescopes, EVN, has observed ...

The map extends through roughly 98% of all cosmic time, or 13.5 billion of the universe's 13.8 billion years. That (and its mind-boggling quantity of galaxies) means Webb's map dwarfs Hubble's ...

The telescope will continue mapping the sky for 10 years. It may be better poised to answer astrophysicists’ deepest questions than any observatory built to date.