DARPA has announced a major shift in the final phase of its NOM4D program, transitioning from laboratory testing to small-scale orbital demonstrations. This move aims to ...

It’s neither fast nor food, but a spectacular object called HH 30 looks appetizing for astronomers in a new image from the ...

On the Webb telescope, 18 hexagonal mirrors combine to form a massive primary mirror that is 21 feet (6.5 meters) across. The ...

The Euclid Space Telescope has captured a remarkable image showing an extremely rare phenomenon: a ring of light around the center of a galaxy, known as an Einstein Ring. These structures appear in ...

ALMA picks up signals from big dust grains, about the size of sand grains, showing that they are concentrated in a thin, ...

Hubble Captures a Distant Supernova The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking image of a supernova and its ...

Dark energy is still a mystery, but powerful new telescopes are set to uncover clues. With NASA and ESA leading the charge, ...

The success of SpaceX and other private-sector space firms is throwing up hard questions about America's "great national ...

Optical light is visible to the human eye, and is the specialty of many telescopes including the Hubble Space Telescope ... this was also a big part of the James Webb Space Telescope's construction ...

Optical light is visible to the human eye, and is the specialty of many telescopes including the Hubble Space Telescope, while infrared light is invisible to us and is more akin to a heat signature.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the sun than any spacecraft ever has, surviving expected temperatures of 1,800 degrees to collect data that’s helping scientists better understand how stars ...