The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, NASA’s upcoming flagship observatory, has passed a crucial vibration test that simulates the violent shaking it will endure during launch. The announcement was ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope enters a critical phase as funding decisions and final design work determine whether ...

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 ...

This collection of images shows the core components of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope undergoing a vibration test at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center. The test ensures this segment ...

Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We'll let other publications offer you ...

Go behind the scenes as NOVA visits the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile. Equipped with an 8.4-meter mirror and a 3.2-billion-pixel camera—the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy—the Rubin ...

Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren’t any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA launched Tuesday night in search of answers to simmering questions about how ...

This photo shows half of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope –– the outer barrel assembly, deployable aperture cover, and test solar arrays –– fully deployed in a thermal chamber at NASA’s ...

Part of the world’s biggest mega-science facility – the SKA Observatory – is being built in outback Western Australia. After decades of planning, countless hours of work, and more than a few setbacks, ...

Chinese scientists have recently completed the sea testing for the precision instruments and engineering equipment of the ...