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

Say hello to one of the Milky Way's neighbors! This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a scene from one of the ...

A breathtaking cosmic dance unfolds as the Webb Telescope captures a star's birth, set against a spiral galaxy's mesmerizing ...

With METIS and MICADO, two instruments for what will be the largest optical telescope in the world, the Extremely Large ...

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

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

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 Hubble Space Telescope image offers an up-close view of one section of the nebula, which is largely shaped by a young ...

Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what's called an inferior conjunction. But don't plan on seeing ...

The consortium of the European space telescope Euclid has published its first data set. It includes many newly discovered but ...

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

Physicists may need to come up with a new theory for how the universe works, after a dark energy experiment has produced ...