The Kepler Space Telescope, named for astronomer Johannes Kepler, was NASA's first exoplanet hunting telescope. It launched on March 6, 2009, with the goal of observing more than 100,000 stars in ...

Telescopes have multiple moving parts, finding celestial bodies is harder than it sounds, and some of the most advanced features can just get in the way if you’re simply hoping for a better look ...

Press Release NASA Completes First Part of Webb Telescope’s ‘Eye Surgery’ Operation by SpaceRef May 15, 2013 ...

Damien Jemison, Giant Magellan Telescope/GMTO Corporation A 10-meter-wide lid is carefully lowered onto the furnace that will cast the telescope’s seventh primary mirror.