The Extremely Large Telescope under construction in Chile's Atacama Desert could detect signs of alien life on other planets ...

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

bulkier lenses and mirrors typically used in telescopes, particularly those of professional observatories on the ground and in space. Down the line, they could also be implemented on amateur ...

The Hubble Space Telescope image offers an up-close view of one section of the nebula, which is largely shaped by a young ...

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 ...

Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...