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 Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority currently is in a five-year transition period before taking full control of ...

Scientists are turning to simulations and experiments to understand how life-indicating molecules behave, so we might know ...

The author, astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi of Fudan University, places the idea “somewhere between hard engineering and science ...

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

Comprising the overall design of the telescope as well as the procurement and construction of its components, this project phase was a significant undertaking. Scientists, engineers, and ...

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.

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.

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is set to embark on a deep-sky survey that could capture nearly 100,000 cosmic explosions, shedding light on everything from dark energy to black hole physics. Its ...

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.