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

The primary mirror array will be 128 feet (39 meters) across, allowing it to gather more light and greater detail than any ...

Unexpected, Bright Hydrogen Emission Caught Astronomers by Surprise In the early universe, space was filled with a dense fog of neutral hydrogen gas. Although the first stars and galaxies gave off ...

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...

The Estes Valley Astronomical Society is offering a free public lecture Saturday, March 29th at the Estes Park Memorial ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) telescope will be actively looking for traces of life on Earth-like planets in other ...

Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant galaxy ever found. It’s 13.4 billion light-years away from Earth, according to new research.

Other telescopes, to be fair, have had infrared abilities, such as the now-retired Spitzer telescope and even the Hubble Space Telescope ... are meant to call on a concept called polarimetry — which ...

The unusually large, luminous distant galaxy, called JADES-GS-z14-0, was initially detected in January 2024 using the James Webb Space Telescope, which observes the universe in infrared light that ...