Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on amateur telescopes. Engineers and astronomers at the University of Utah have ...

Get closer to our solar companions with the best telescopes for seeing planets, just in time for April's full moon and a stunning view of Mercury. Want to focus your stargazing on our cosmic ...

ESO's Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) sits at the peak of Cerro Armazones. The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in Chile, could potentially search for alien life ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar system for the first time, scientists announced Monday. The gas giants are ...

Extraordinary images from the Euclid space telescope have captured 26 million galaxies, some as far off as 10.5 billion light years. Euclid was launched by the European Space Agency (ESA ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered 55 Cancri e, a super-Earth located 41 light-years away. This planet, five times larger than Earth, has extreme temperatures reaching 2,400°C and ...

The universe can be a beautiful but violent place. A new image from the Webb space telescope captures an epic battle between two stars as they launch jets of material toward one another ...

Less than one per cent of the world’s biggest radio telescope is complete – but its first image reveals a sky dotted with ancient galaxies. Part of the world’s biggest mega-science facility – the SKA ...

NASA's newest space telescope rocketed toward orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the ...

A conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez You don't see this every day. "Our hope with this kind of ...