As the next-generation observatory moves closer to its 2027 launch, engineers successfully deployed the mission-critical solar panels and a massive sunshade that will help it peer into the universe’s ...

Sweeping views of nebulae and dancing galaxies prove the telescope’s enormous field of view and ultra-high-res capabilities.

Astronomers have taken a fresh look at the famous “Hand of God” pulsar, combining X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra Observatory with new radio observations from the Australia Telescope Compact Array. At ...

A Chilean observatory has unveiled the largest telescope in the world, equipped with a simply massive camera and capable to taking incredible photos.

A new generation of extremely large telescopes requires fresh approaches to correct for the blurring effects caused by the Earth’s atmosphere, as Richard de Grijs, one of an international team of ...

Ambitious An artist’s impression of NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Space Telescope (WFIRST). (Courtesy: NASA) The 1998 discovery that the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate raised new and ...

Roman will have the exact crisp resolution as Hubble, which has reached 35 years in orbit, and the James Webb Space Telescope, launched in December 2021, but its field of view will be at least 100 ...

The highest-resolution images of a solar flare captured at the H-alpha wavelength (656.28 nm) ever captured may reshape how ...

When NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches in October 2026, it won't just be peering into the distant universe to ...

The images, captured with the new Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii, reveal arcs of hot gas just 10 to 30 miles wide that follow the sun’s magnetic fields. Earlier instruments could only ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS shines in the sharpest view yet captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, helping astronomers ...

Enter the Hubble Space Telescope, which was launched into Earth orbit 35 years ago this week (April 24) aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. With a diameter of “only” 94 inches, it’s hardly ...