The Kepler Space Telescope, named for astronomer Johannes Kepler, was NASA's first exoplanet hunting telescope. It launched on March 6, 2009, with the goal of observing more than 100,000 stars in ...

Among the astronomers who used these powerful instruments to revolutionize our view of the universe was Vera Rubin, whose groundbreaking observations in the 1970s would shake the very foundations of ...

The brand new Vera Rubin telescope is about to begin its 10-year mission to offer the newest cosmic perspective we've had in ...

While Galileo didn't invent the telescope, he is the person most inextricably tied to its use and development. The field of optics had become so established, and the principles behind Lippershey's ...