NASA has completed its final inspection of the primary mirror on the Roman Space Telescope, which measures 2.4 meters (7.9 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is one of the most impressive pieces of technology ever made, but that doesn't mean it needs to draw a lot of power to function.

Scientists in Japan have developed a high-resolution X-ray telescope sharp enough to distinguish an object just 3.5 mm wide from one kilometer away, by combining precision mirror-making technology ...

New telescope instruments are pushing galaxy observation far beyond what was possible a decade ago. Advances in space telescope technology now allow astronomers to study billions of galaxies across ...

Advances in quantum technology might allow astronomers to circumvent age-old issues that limit the size of optical observatories ...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, recently announced that they would finance, out of their own pocket, a number of new observatories, including a space telescope dubbed “Lazuli.” ...

NASA offers a simple way to see which stunning celestial image the Hubble Space Telescope captured on your birthday.

On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried NASA's new exoplanet telescope, Pandora, ...

NASA has released an extensive cosmic map of the night sky, created from eight years of data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). This image features over 6,000 bright dots ...

As the Sun sets over the dry plains of rural Texas, something unusual begins to happen inside a series of long metal ...