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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...