The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch in May 2027 with a 288MP camera, will “unveil the cosmos to the edge of the observable universe” ...

The Pandora satellite provides career training grounds while observing exoplanets.

After a delay, it's all systems go for the launch of the world's most powerful observatory. The James Webb Space Telescope will be launched into space on Saturday. Webb is a Granville County native ...

Chinese researchers have completed a full end-to-end simulation of the Chinese Space Station Telescope's observing systems, offering a preview of how the powerful scope will survey the universe.

Light is the fastest phenomenon in the universe, clocking in at just under 300,000 kilometers per second. The telescopes that observe that light, from radio waves to gamma rays, are built at rather ...

The venerable Hubble observatory is going strong despite its decades in space and the advent of next-generation successors ...

NASA completes assembly of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The observatory will enter final testing before launch, providing infrared surveys and cosmic data for astronomy research.

A history-making robotic rescue mission scheduled to launch next year will fly on a rocket dropped from a plane. In September, NASA announced that it has chosen Arizona company Katalyst Space ...

When it launched the James Webb Space Telescope on Christmas Day in 2021, NASA advertised it as the most advanced that was ever made. Coincidentally, it is also the most expensive telescope ever made, ...

Schmidt Sciences aims to speed up the development of the telescope using modular systems and a "risk-tolerant technical innovation" approach. Credit: Schmidt Sciences The philanthropic organization of ...

Today the globe is circled by thousands of active satellites—each prone to photobombing astronomers’ telescopes as an artificial star zipping across the night sky. Scientists working with ground-based ...