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

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

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has solved the 19-year mystery of the "Cosmic Tornado," a strange, twisteresque object ...

Black holes have such extreme gravity that not even light can escape. They have been caught shredding entire stars and can ...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky ...

Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...

Scientists have made a stunning discovery of oxygen in the most distant galaxy known, raising questions about how galaxies ...

The Canadian-built Atacama Cosmology Telescope in the high Chilean desert mountains, which has just given up its final batch ...

Satellites connect people around the world but they also interfere with astronomers’ views of the cosmos. There are ways to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a surprising galaxy rotation pattern, where two-thirds rotate clockwise and ...

New data further challenge the best scientific theory of the history and the structure of the universe. But a separate recent ...