The Roman telescope is named after NASA's first chief astronomer. It is equipped with a 300-megapixel infrared camera, with a ...

'It's doing fundamentally different science.' ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is a masterwork of engineering and human ingenuity. Hubble is comparable in size and weight to a large school bus, but its contributions to science and astronomy could fill ...

After a decade of development, NASA’s next-generation space telescope is slated to launch on Aug. 30, heading to orbit ahead ...

Imagine keeping a laser beam trained on a dime that's 200 miles away. Now imagine doing that continuously for 24 hours, while riding a merry-go-round. Does it seem difficult? Well, that's basically ...

Hubble is built to study individual objects or relatively small regions of the sky in great detail. Roman, meanwhile, will ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Apr 16, 2025, 04:51pm EDT The Hubble Space Telescope revisited the ...

The "Black Eye Galaxy" is captured in a gorgeous new composite image from the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes.

The telescope has given all of us a front-row seat to cosmic history. We should give it another lease on life.

The venerable Hubble Space Telescope is running out of gyroscopes, and when none are left, the instrument will cease to conduct meaningful science. To preserve the telescope, which has been operating ...