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 ...

On Jan. 4, 2022, engineers successfully completed the deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope’s sunshield, seen here during its final deployment test on Earth in December 2020 at Northrop ...

While standard telescopes are certainly cool devices, there is no shame in preferring a telescope for beginners if you’re just starting. Telescopes have multiple moving parts, finding celestial ...

NASA’s GUSTO balloon telescope will map part of the Milky Way. The first to be funded as part of the Explorers Program, GUSTO will spend at least 55 days floating above Antarctica.

NASA telescope to explore sun — This image from the Hinode mission shows the lower regions of the sun's atmosphere, the interface region, which IRIS will study in detail. JAXA/Hinode/NASA ...

The telescope is larger than the rocket that carried it into orbit, says Mike Menzel, NASA's lead mission systems engineer for the James Webb Space Telescope. That means parts of the telescope ...