When it comes to telescopes, there are no bigger names than Hubble and Webb, but why have two space telescopes anyway, how ...

The South Pole Telescope has released its most precise image yet of the universe’s first light—the cosmic microwave background. This new ground-based data confirms cosmic expansion anomalies and ...

Buried in the sweeping legislation is an $85 million provision to move NASA's most-flown spacecraft from the national ...

Compared with the ground-based radar (GBR) system and the space-based optical (SBO) system, the space-based radar (SBR) system has a better space target detection coverage and it is not constrained by ...

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

Last week the Rubin Observatory released the first data from a newly commissioned telescope. Astronomers, engineers and ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), an enormous ground-based telescope currently under construction in Chile's Atacama Desert ...

NASA's Space Shuttle programme officially ended in 2011, after 30 years of service. The final mission, STS-135, was flown by ...

Telescope used trick mimicking solar eclipse to uncover a new planet, a method that could change how scientists find distant ...

Early Spiral Galaxy Captured for the First Time Using Gravitational Lenses . For the first time ever, scientists have ...