The bright planets will appear within a pinkie width of each other this June—their closest alignment until 2028.

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now aiming for an earlier launch in September 2026. Designed to explore dark matter, dark energy, and distant exoplanets, the telescope will capture massive ...

The Arecibo Radio Telescope was a 305 m (1,000 ft) spherical reflector radio telescope built into a natural sinkhole at the ...

The Kepler telescope changed how we saw the sky. It’s just one of the devices we’ve sent out beyond the reach of humans to ...

Later this year, a prototype telescope is slated to land on the moon. It could usher in a new era of lunar radio astronomy.

A person kneels on a platform reaching down toward a large, circular container full of glass pieces. To build the Giant Magellan Telescope, engineers constructed seven massive mirrors, the largest ...

We love when astronomers share the images they capture with the James Webb Space Telescope because they are so dang beautiful and cool. But of course, science is about more than just pretty pictures.

The U.S. has pressed Argentina and Chile to review two Chinese telescope projects in the Andean deserts. Astronomers are worried about setbacks to research. The unfinished Chinese telescope at night ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made a surprising discovery about a galaxy long, long ago and far, far away: It isn't rotating. That's something only seen in the most massive, ...

Swissto12 deepens relationship with Germany aerospace with new deal. Credit: Swissto12 Swissto12 is to add an unfurling antenna reflector to a planned geostationary satellite designed to broadcast ...

Universe Today reports on a new solar telescope project that helps scientists study planets outside our Solar System. So far, more than 6,000 exoplanets have been confirmed, and many more are waiting ...

Using instruments on the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers can measure the movement of mass inside galaxies less than two billion years after the Big Bang. To their surprise, astronomers ...