On December 25, 2021, the largest and most powerful space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, was launched into space ...

Taking high-resolution pictures of stars in space has been considered a serious struggle for decades, and a new discovery was ...

CHICAGO, Oct. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today LeapFrog ® announced its Magic Adventures™ Telescope was included in TIME's Best Inventions of 2023 list. TIME's annual list of the Best Inventions ...

Scientist celebrated today for changing our view of the universe. Aug. 25, 2009 — -- Who invented the telescope? Not Galileo. Who first pointed it at the heavens? Again, it wasn't Galileo. So ...

The critical issue -- The technology of grinding crystals in antiquity and the Middle Ages -- The reading stones (lapides ad legendum) -- The first dioptrical vision aids -- Glass techniques in the ...

Except for medicine, astronomy is the most ancient of the sciences. The night sky, undimmed by electric lighting and thus blazing with at least six thousand visible stars, provided our earliest ...

When everything shakes, precision is usually impossible – everybody who has ever tried to take a photo with shaky hands or make handwritten notes on a bumpy bus journey knows that. With technical ...