A NASA space telescope on a mission to map millions of galaxies has turned on its detectors for the first time, capturing ...

"This is the observatory's full field of view, a rectangular area about 20 times wider than the full moon." You know how the James Webb Space Telescope is said to be revolutionizing astronomy ...

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Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on amateur telescopes. Engineers and astronomers at the University of Utah have ...

ESO's Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) sits at the peak of Cerro Armazones. The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in Chile, could potentially search for alien life ...

NASA successfully launched the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) on March 12, 2025, a near-infrared space telescope that will ...

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NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar system for the first time, scientists announced Monday. The gas giants are ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A European space telescope launched to explore the dark universe has released a trove of new data on distant galaxies. READ MORE: A cradle of baby stars revealed in new ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...