Sir Isaac Newton once wrote, in what must be one of the most oft-quoted lines in the history of science ... any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same, for the two ...

They’re working to build a new telescope to track asteroids that could be on a collision course with Earth. “Recycling the history is one of the most important parts of this project,” said ...

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

Expected to launch no earlier than Thursday, Feb. 27, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, NASA's SPHEREx space ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have used a distortion in space to reveal over 40 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light-years from the Milky Way — halfway back to the ...

The most powerful telescope ever put into space has made a historic discovery. The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a ...

The $10bn James Webb telescope has left Earth on its mission to show the first stars to light up the Universe. The observatory was lifted skyward by an Ariane rocket from the Kourou spaceport in ...

The Spitzer Space Telescope mission will soon end, and NASA is using this as an opportunity to celebrate all the success the telescope has enjoyed during its lengthy tenure in space. In a new post ...