A European space telescope launched to explore the dark universe has released a trove of new data on distant galaxies.

A European space telescope launched to explore the dark universe has released a trove of new data on distant galaxies.

For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.

New images of the infant universe captured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are the most precise "baby pictures" to ...

Most Planets Have No Known Date of First Observation . Before we begin, I want you to imagine a clear night sky you've ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was recently used to capture direct images of four Saturn-like exoplanets in a solar system 130 light-years away.

For the first time, a flat telescope lens has been produced that represents colors accurately, offering a way to make less bulky lenses that could be sent into space cheaply. The first telescopes ...

The accuracy of the pointing error in the subreflector is of great importance to the large steerable radio telescope, so the measurement of the six degree-of-freedom ...

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are all bright enough to be visible to the naked eye, while Uranus and Neptune require binoculars or a telescope to spot. In January and February 2025 ...

A new kind of space telescope has embarked on a two-year mission to create four complete maps of the entire celestial sky that will catalog the origins of the universe and seek out the ingredients ...

This, occasionally, has led to some interesting problems, the most famous, perhaps, being a microwave oven that created puzzling signals in radio telescope data ... "We said, 'I bet the signal is ...

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...