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

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

Here's how an innovative flat lens could solve these problems for satellites and space-based telescopes. Understanding ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...

Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe.

NASA’s NEO Surveyor, a spacecraft specifically designed to detect asteroids that could threaten Earth, is on track for a 2027 ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to directly capture images of the planets in the star system HR 8799, which ...

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

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 Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR) telescope has been imagined as a habitable planet hunter, but it could be so much ...

The Extremely Large Telescope will revolutionize our view of the cosmos when it sees first light in Chile in 2028. In fact, ...