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

Mock observations test the performance of the Chinese Space Station Telescope as the 2-meter-class observatory moves closer ...

The Square Kilometer Array will have its first light next year, and the Extremely Large Telescope will be completed and ...

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

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

Commercial satellites in orbit, which are largely owned by Elon Musk's SpaceX, are blocking images of the cosmos taken from both the ground and in space. A study released by Nature earlier this month ...

China’s Xuntian space telescope completed a full performance simulation, confirming operational readiness for its planned ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...