The site was chosen for its altitude, placing the telescope above as much atmospheric disturbance as possible. The air has a ...

The Extremely Large Telescope will revolutionize our view of the cosmos when it sees first light in Chile in 2028. In fact, ...

Astronomers using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to survey distant galaxies spotted an unusual, chance phenomenon ...

Unexpected, Bright Hydrogen Emission Caught Astronomers by Surprise In the early universe, space was filled with a dense fog ...

Scientists have developed an impossibly thin telescope lens that addresses a key astronomical challenge in a new study funded ...

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

These particles are so ghostly that trillions of them pass through Earth each day without notice. So, how do we detect them?

NAS's James Webb Space Telescope has captured Neptune’s glowing auroras in the best detail yet. Hints of auroras were first ...

The subject of today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is the stunning spiral galaxy NGC 5530. This galaxy is situated 40 million light-years away in the constellation Lupus, the Wolf, and ...

The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of ...

The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other.

The effects of a proposed green-energy facility in Chile could be devastating for some of the most powerful instruments ...