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

The European Space Agency’s “dark universe detective” discovered millions of new galaxies and offers potential clues about ...

The world's largest telescope is almost as big as your house—and it’s unlocking the universe’s biggest mysteries.

Nadeen Sabha,University Innsbruck is the first astrophysicist in Austria to lead a research project at the new James Webb ...

Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on ...

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 galaxy is a vibrant orange disk, dubbed the Big Wheel. Its life began within the universe’s first two billion years of ...

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

The European Space Agency has released the first batch of large-scale images from the Euclid space telescope, which ...

If there is life on Proxima Centauri b, it could take the Extremely Large Telescope as little as 10 hours to detect its ...

Scientists have made a stunning discovery of oxygen in the most distant galaxy known, raising questions about how galaxies ...