A first-of-its-kind space telescope could soon launch into orbit and potentially chart a new path forward for astronomy.

New Space is a term now commonly used around the rocketry and satellite industries to indicate a new, speed focused model of ...

As reported by Science, the telescope was announced at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society this week and could be ...

NASA has selected L3Harrist o develop advanced optics and mirror systems for the Habitable Worlds Observatory, a flagship space telescope searching for life beyond Earth.

A billionaire-backed philanthropic organization is funding the development of a series of new observatories, including a ...

2025 MN45 isn't the overall spin-rate record holder. Astronomers have found a number of small asteroids — those just a few ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt's Lazuli, the first private space telescope in history, could fly to space as soon as 2029.

Our planet is surrounded by a halo of ultraviolet light invisible to the naked eye, a celestial phenomenon that scientists have been trying to understand for over half a century. This enigmatic glow, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NASA has tapped startup Katalyst to save a $500 million orbiting observatory from falling into Earth's atmosphere by launching a spacecraft meant to push it farther in space, a ...

Every year, all telescopes on Earth and in space combined discover around 20,000 new asteroids. In just its first ten hours of activity, a single new observatory discovered 2,104 asteroids, or in ...

To test the James Webb Space Telescope's readiness for its journey in space, technicians successfully commanded it to deploy and extend a critical part of the observatory known as the Deployable Tower ...

With a network of high-powered radio telescopes, scientists have discovered a giant "cocoon" of gas surrounding one of the ...