One of the world's largest radio telescopes has been destroyed by a Ukrainian drone to prevent Russian forces from using it ...

In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, Rowan Hooper explores the advances ...

Astronomy isn’t just about distant stars; it’s also about the human effort here on Earth that makes it possible to extend our ...

Just 40 light-years from Earth, a red dwarf star named TRAPPIST-1 intrigues astronomers with its exceptional planetary system ...

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Upon arrival at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, the Optical Telescope Assembly for the agency's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was lifted out of the shipping fixture and placed with other ...

In a speech at the AMOS conference the day after the telescope tour, Saltzman said the Space Force is “honored to be ...

Astronomers get to ask some of the most fundamental questions there are, ranging from whether we’re alone in the cosmos to what the nature of the mysterious dark energy and dark matter making up most ...

Optical aberration theory remains a fundamental component in the design and operation of space telescopes. With increasingly ambitious astronomical missions and the demand for high-resolution imaging, ...

Today, April 11, 2006, The Planetary Society dedicated a new optical telescope at an observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts — one designed solely to search for light ...