The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first look at the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 before a perilous close approach ...

NASA’s NEO Surveyor, a spacecraft specifically designed to detect asteroids that could threaten Earth, is on track for a 2027 ...

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

Astronomers are racing to protect the dark skies as private companies seek to place large advertisements in Earth orbit ...

Elon Musk faces a conflict of interest in supporting a space telescope helpful to SpaceX but attacking programs that benefit ...

The Euclid Space Telescope is focused on surveying about ... and Euclid Consortium scientist, based at the University of Toronto, Canada. The second device is the Near-Infrared Spectrometer ...

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

"It was so stunning to not just see the auroras, but the detail and clarity of the signature really shocked me." ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope used its Near-Infrared Spectrograph to capture Neptune’s auroras in stunning detail.

"Until now, the vast majority of lenses have been found by ground-based telescopes. that is because lenses are so rare you ...

The new pictures of this background radiation, known as the cosmic microwave background (CMB), add higher definition to those observed more than a decade ago by the Planck space-based telescope. “ACT ...

ESA's Euclid space telescope has been providing valuable data from the depths of space for almost two years. With its help, ...