For the first time, a flat telescope lens has been produced that represents colors accurately, offering a way to make less bulky lenses that could be sent into space cheaply. The first telescopes ...

At January's Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Tom Brown, who heads Webb's mission office at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), showcased the observatory's achievements ...

In world-first observations, the James Webb Space Telescope is watching two distant alien planets "spilling their guts into space" as they rapidly disintegrate — and scientists are elated at ...

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are all bright enough to be visible to the naked eye, while Uranus and Neptune require binoculars or a telescope to spot. In January and February 2025 ...

An illustration of the Oort Cloud. (NASA/ESA and A. Feild /Space Telescope Science Institute) Nesvorný and his colleagues have been studying the inner Oort Cloud for years. In their latest research, ...

Once the telescope is in LEO ... is expected to make a massive contribution to space science. It will do so using SPHEREx's dual focal plane assemblies, which will simultaneously image the ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope was late to launch, but the observatory is making up for lost time. After several years of operation, Webb has captured some truly stunning cosmic vistas ...

Credit: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration Scientists at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, which runs Webb and the Hubble Space Telescope, are calling this the longest ...

Such a dramatic cut to a flagship space telescope still in its prime will be felt across the mission's entire operations, affecting science. The scientists behind NASA's largest and most powerful ...

an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, tells Will Dunham of Reuters. Despite being relatively close to Earth in astronomical terms, Sgr A* has been difficult to study because ...

Several flaring hot spots that resemble solar flares, but on a more energetic scale, are seen in the disk. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected both bright flares and fainter flickers coming ...