Making the far near The invention that set the stage for the telescope was the eyeglass, which appeared in the mid-13th century. The first spectacles, designed to correct farsightedness ...

The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is the first radio telescope to be designed from the ground up to be used for SETI searches.Until its construction, all radio SETI efforts were dependent on the ...

and it was only during the Renaissance in Europe that they began to test and experiment in various fields of science. In 1609 Galileo Galilei may be said to have rediscovered the heavens when he first ...

"This is just 1% of the map, and yet it is full of a variety of sources that will help scientists discover new ways to ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

The final 3D atlas of the sky will help scientists study dark matter and dark energy, which make up 96 percent of the ...

Well, they've done it. Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope, a partnership of NASA and its European and Canadian ...

"My first thought in looking at the galaxy's spectrum was, 'that's weird,' which is exactly what the Webb telescope was designed to reveal." The newfound galaxy is inconspicuous — except for its ...

The Euclid space telescope's massive “cosmic atlas” promises to shed light on fundamental questions in physics and cosmology ...

In its 40th year, “ Body Double ,” one of De Palma’s most underloved masterpieces, is a film that still knows how to get the ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope today announced the successful installation of one of its completed 8.4-meter-diameter primary ...

He was one of the first people to repeat an observation or ... The covert nature of Renaissance alchemy meant that ...