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

Here's how an innovative flat lens could solve these problems for satellites and space-based telescopes. Understanding ...

Over the past few years or so the most talked about kind of telescope was the one that is meant to operate in space. An ...

The site was chosen for its altitude, placing the telescope above as much atmospheric disturbance as possible. The air has a ...

Early simulations show that it would take only 10 hours for the forthcoming ELT to find signs of life near Proxima Centauri.

The Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR) telescope has been imagined as a habitable planet hunter, but it could be so much ...

New optical technologies have revolutionized astronomy, from the invention of the telescope 400 years ago to more recent developments of adaptive optics and segmented mirrors. The next disruptive ...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky ...

Herbig-Haro 49/50, aka the 'Cosmic Tornado', as seen by Spitzer in January 2006. The source of the 'tornado', a Class 1 ...

Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe.

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has officially begun its journey of cosmic exploration after successfully ejecting its dust ...