Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered the most distant Fast Radio Burst (FRB) ever, more than ...

It's headed out now to study the universe, but the new Nancy Grace Roman telescope almost had equipment too small to matter.

Roman joins Hubble and Webb as humanity’s eyes in space. The road to launch was long and arduous, but NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope finally got to space in late August. While Roman is still on ...

NASA will move ahead with a new space telescope to see the cold, dusty universe far more sharply than any before it, chasing ...

Look up at the night sky with the naked eye and it may seem like it rarely changes. Yet the universe is in constant flux.

NASA has selected the far-infrared space telescope mission PRIMA (PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics) to move to the ...

The new flagship telescope will work with the James Webb and Hubble telescopes to study dark energy and search for exoplanets. The telescope's primary mission is expected to last five years, with a ...

Belgian physicist Prof Francis Halzen has won for his pioneering work on an observatory that detects particles from space.

The $4 billion observatory is on a million-mile journey to an orbit beyond the moon. Its five-year mission is to study dark matter and hunt for habitable worlds outside our solar system. The telescope ...

A space telescope is falling out of orbit, and a rescue mission showed up just in time—but both are doomed. The dramatic situation unfolded roughly 340 kilometers above Earth, where NASA’s Neil ...

This time, we are looking at the astronomical telescope, which can be considered the star of astrophotography.Among those who do astrophotography, it is sometimes called an "optical tube", or even ...

Dark clouds swirl across a star-speckled sky as the Milky Way stretches above La Silla Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert.