Over the quarter century I’ve been writing this column, I've been flabbergasted by the advances in telescopes for backyard ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured new imagery of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. It is 11,000 light-years away in ...
The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...
Not only that, but the second lens also magnifies the first – though not very bright, it can be seen in the images collected ...
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is one giant step closer to unlocking the mysteries of the universe. The mission has ...
Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...
The best telescopes for astrophotography are ideal for both stargazing enthusiasts and those who want to capture the cosmos with their cameras. So which model should you buy? Well, that depends a lot ...
The radar antenna reflector for the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission arrived at the spacecraft integration and test facility of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO ...
A prime example is the European Space Agency’s wide-angle Euclid telescope that launched in 2023 to investigate the riddles of dark energy and dark matter. Euclid this week delivered the first ...
Each of the three probes will be outfitted with a pair of telescopes supplied by NASA, the prototypes of which the space agency revealed Tuesday. NASA has unveiled a prototype of six telescopes ...
The rapidly developing technology of telescopes – both on Earth and in space – has been a key part of this process, and those that are due to start operating over the next two decades should ...