The first telescopes used lenses ... while telescopes flown aboard balloons or aircraft need to be compact. Although reflecting telescopes can be much lighter than similar-sized refractors, ...

The SKA-Low radio telescope in Western Australia is slowly coming online. It will probe the shape of the universe and study ...

NASA launched a new space telescope into orbit to explore the origins of the universe. The mission will use sophisticated ...

"We can see, for the first time, rings of dust surrounding protoplanets made visible by the bright starlight reflecting off ...

The Odysseus spacecraft made a rough landing on the moon last year, toppling over and rendering much of its equipment unusable, but an onboard NASA radio telescope called ROLSES-1  was able to make so ...

In the red dirt of outback Western Australia, a world-leading radio telescope has captured its first image and scientists say it is a crucial step towards seeing the origins of the known universe.

Huertas-Company, J.-C. Cuillandre The European Space Agency (ESA) has just released the first batch of data from the groundbreaking Euclid space telescope, which was built to study the mysteries ...

In 2022, the telescope captured Neptune's ghostly rings and revealed a band of clouds around a known vortex at the planet's south pole for the first time. But the Voyager 2 mission did discover ...