A specialized observing mode aboard NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has overcome a major technical setback. After years of ...

NASA’s next great space telescope will see 100 times more sky than Hubble. It’s about to arrive in Florida for launch in ...

When NASA launched its $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope in 2021, scientists hailed the mission as the greatest achievement of its kind in over three decades. Soon, however, scientists noticed a ...

NASA will show off its fully assembled Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to journalists on Tuesday, April 21, at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The agency announced the event on ...

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Combined observations offer the most detailed portrait of the ringed planet to date. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Stunning new ...

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, ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that time was “running out” in the race to build the next great optical telescope ...

PHOENIX, Ariz.—A first-of-its-kind space telescope could soon launch into orbit and potentially chart a new path forward for astronomy. “For 20 years, Eric and I have pursued philanthropy to seek new ...

Prior to World War II the vast majority of telescopes built around the world were funded by wealthy people with an interest in the heavens above. However, after the war, two significant developments ...