American space agency NASA readies the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope for integration, launch could come as soon as next ...

Faced with the complicated job of putting together the $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope, NASA and lead contractor Northrop Grumman are starting to run practice assembly tests using a ...

With the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope in 2021 astronomy seems to have found its footing once again. Thanks to the remarkable discoveries of the instrument, new and exciting research is ...

The roar inside NASA’s acoustic test chamber reached 138 decibels a level louder than a jet engine at close range-yet the ...

Scientists working on NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope have achieved a significant milestone in assembling the next-generation observatory, which aims to address critical questions about dark ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is one giant step closer to unlocking the mysteries of the universe. The mission has now received its final major delivery: the Optical Telescope Assembly, ...

When it comes to telescopes, size matters. In order to keep learning new things about the universe, astronomers are constantly building bigger and better observatories to gaze at the cosmos both from ...

NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), the largest airborne observatory in the world, will receive a key component today when its telescope assembly arrives in Waco, Texas, ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, is scheduled to launch in late 2018. Faced with the complicated job of putting together the $8.8 billion James Webb Space ...