The NASA James Webb Space Telescope captured a stunning image of an Einstein ring, an optical phenomenon created by ...

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

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

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is ...

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

What began as a high-tech conference on Maui with 300 attendees more than 25 years ago has grown into a gathering of more ...

Believe it or not, we've seen a few optical illusions in space over the year. Well, we haven't seen them – the Hubble ...

Using a telescope at Kitt Peak, scientists have produced the largest 3D map of the universe ever made and uncovered ...

The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of ...

New optical technologies have revolutionized astronomy, from the invention of the telescope 400 years ago to more recent developments of adaptive optics and segmented mirrors. The next disruptive ...

Earth crosses through Saturn’s “ring plane,” making the gas giant’s most iconic feature become nearly invisible ...

A conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting 1 million miles ... It's not an actual object, but a warped, mind-bending optical illusion. "The picture features a rare cosmic phenomenon ...