John Mather, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, is designing the first family of ISEE’s (Inflatable Starshade for Earthlike Exoplanets) with sizes from 35 to ...

When it comes to telescopes, the bigger, the better. As technology advances, we’re investing billions into the next generation of "extremely large telescopes" (ELTs), with projects like the Thirty ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope received official approval from the National Science Foundation (NSF) confirming that the observatory will advance into its Major Facilities Final Design Phase, one of the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers hunted supermassive black holes devouring stars in dusty galaxies — but laying in wait for their stellar victims.

Located on the 3.6-meter telescope at La Silla Observatory in Chile, NIRPS officially began scientific observations in April 2023.

This is Our Home: Stellafane and the Springfield Telescope Makers For 100+ years this Vermont club has built telescopes by hand, shaping amateur astronomy around the world ...

LuSEE-Night aims to unlock cosmic secrets by setting up a radio telescope on the Moon's far side, free from Earth's radio noise.

He recently added a new mystery to the list: Is China quietly building the world’s biggest telescope? He would like to know, because he leads a rival telescope project in the U.S.

Webb has been orbiting more than a million miles from Earth, capturing breathtaking images of deep space. But how does it actually work?

Captured in infrared light by the James Webb Space Telescope, the peculiar star system Apep consists of two dying stars spewing their innards at each other.

The Defense Innovation Unit has selected Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to provide a new monolithic telescope for a responsive space mission, which Firefly Aerospace will launch as early ...

The day before my thesis examination, my friend and radio astronomer showed me we’d been awaiting for five long years – an infrared photo of two dying stars we’d requested from the in Chile ...