When NASA's high-altitude balloon lifts off from Antarctica in December 2023 at the start of its up to four-week voyage over the South Pole, it will carry the Astrophysics Stratospheric Telescope for ...

Astronomers have begun measuring of the most distant star ever detected, thanks to the powerful eyes of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). That star, known as Earendel, was discovered last year by ...

This photo provided by the European Space Agency on June 29, 2023 shows the Euclid space telescope being prepared for launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla. (ESA via AP) This photo provided by the European ...

With the liftoff of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope from French Guiana today, humankind is one step closer to seeing the universe in a whole new light, with help from a camera built by Lockheed ...

NASA’s Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) successfully launched from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 1:35:39 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (10:35:39 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time, ...

Peering through the 10-meter Keck telescopes on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea is like looking through a time machine: Astronomers can see faint and distant galaxies as they were a billion and a half years after ...

The XL-Calibur telescope took to the skies on Tuesday (July 12). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An international team of ...

image: A forklift gently moves a shipping canister that holds one of the flight mirrors that will fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. The canister reads "Critical Space Flight Hardware." Two ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A European space telescope blasted off Saturday on a quest to explore the mysterious and invisible realm known as the dark universe. SpaceX launched the European Space ...

Webb's primary imager will help it see some of the oldest light in the universe. KOUROU, French Guiana, Dec. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- With the liftoff of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope from French ...