Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. To resolve any astronomical object, you must achieve resolutions ...

According to the widely accepted Rayleigh criterion, in order to resolve two distant point sources, their angular separation must be larger than 1.22 (the wavelength of light divided by the ...

If you want to observe the Universe more deeply and at higher resolution than ever before, there's one tactic that everyone agrees is ideal: build as big a telescope as possible. But the highest ...

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) was designed to capture images of some of the most gargantuan structures in the universe — and a new observation just pushed it to its limits. In a study published in ...

'Achieving this unparalleled resolution…has pushed ALMA's capabilities to their absolute limit, opening a new window for astrophysics.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

In July 1969, Man first walked on the Moon. Over the course of three more years, we did it five more times. Despite the return of hundreds of kilos of rocks, thousands of pictures, and independent ...

A ground-based telescope in Chile has shared its highest-resolution image ever, showcasing the final stages of star evolution within our galaxy 1,350 light-years from Earth. The telescope is ...

Using the unique capabilities of telescopes specialized on cosmic gamma rays, scientists have measured the smallest apparent size of a star on the night sky to date. The measurements reveal the ...

When it comes to telescopes, size matters. In order to keep learning new things about the universe, astronomers are constantly building bigger and better observatories to gaze at the cosmos both from ...