One of the most ambitious space projects since the Apollo era roared into space today as NASA's long-delayed James Webb Space Telescope lifted off at 7:20 am EST (12:20 GMT) atop an Ariane 5 rocket ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was launched nearly five years ago, and the first images it revealed made waves across the astronomical world. Those images are still among the most relevant pictures ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is the world’s largest and most complex in history and is expected to send images to Earth this week. The James Webb Space Telescope’s revolutionary technology will ...

"Space Telescope History Project"--Cover. "These items from ... were selected by the Space Telescope History Project, a joint enterprise of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, ...

The Arecibo Observatory, established in 1963, initially aimed to study the ionosphere and track missiles but serendipitously evolved into the world's largest single-dish radio telescope for decades, ...

The biggest space telescope in history aims to answer astronomy’s oldest question: How did we get from the Big Bang to here? By Dennis Overbye There are only a few times in the history of a species ...

The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant galaxy. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, history's largest and most ...