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 ...

With the promise of revolutionizing our view of nearby star systems, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is poised to do ...

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

NASA launched a new space telescope into orbit to explore the origins of the universe. The mission will use sophisticated ...

The galaxy is a vibrant orange disk, dubbed the Big Wheel. Its life began within the universe’s first two billion years of ...

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has officially begun its journey of cosmic exploration after successfully ejecting its dust ...

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

The European Space Agency has released the first batch of large-scale images from the Euclid space telescope, which ...

The final results from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope offer the sharpest, most sensitive view of the early cosmos that ...

After five years of staring unblinking at the sky, the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) has compiled the most detailed map ...

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

The stunning comet C/2024 G3 lights up the sunset sky over Chile's Very Large Telescope in this spectacular photo.