NASA is preparing to launch a megaphone-shaped observatory on a mission to better understand what happened immediately after ...

NASA's latest space telescope, SPHEREx — short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization ...

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For centuries, lenses have worked the same way: curved glass or plastic bending light to bring images into focus. But ...

AS night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile, four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn ...

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first ...

Astronomers have unlocked a new way to explore alien worlds by mapping the 3D structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere for the ...

Like its mythological namesake, the Phoenix Cluster burns with blisteringly hot gas, which cools to birth stars. The James ...

A: The Extremely Large Telescope is planned to be one of the most capable astronomical observatories ever assembled. The telescope, currently about 60% complete, is intended to search for evidence ...

The more powerful they get, traditional curved lenses used in telescopes become bigger and bulkier. University of Utah ...

Close up of the stairways up to the top of ESO's Extremely Large Telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert. | Credit: ESO/G. Vecchia These mirrors will allow astronomers to peer into the cosmos like ...

NASA's newest space telescope will scan the entire sky in a range of near-infrared wavelengths to help astronomers better ...