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

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

Scientists have discovered a star-smothering black hole energy jet tearing through a galaxy similar to the Milky Way.

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

What's on and in a star? What happens in an active galactic nucleus? Answering those questions is the goal of a proposed ...

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 ...

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

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

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

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...