Opposition is growing in Hawaii to the military's plan to add up to seven space surveillance telescopes atop Haleakalā ...

Straight to the dome.

A team of 48 astronomers from 14 countries, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has discovered a population of ...

How space telescopes capture distant galaxies using infrared imaging, precision optics, and astronomy technology beyond Earth's atmosphere.

Webb Telescope finds crystalline water ice around star HD 181327. This discovery could reveal how icy bodies contribute to ...

NASA scientists have proposed something extraordinary: building the largest telescope ever made on the far side of the Moon.

The Sun would be a far more powerful telescope than any humanity could create in the near future. But to use it, we need to get to 650 AU.

Borosilicate glass offers extreme stability; Microsoft’s accelerated aging experiments suggest the data would be stable for ...

Lanakila Mangauil, one of the most recognizable faces of the movement to stop construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on ...

I’m forever grateful to NASA for giving me an amazing 10 years. After four to five years in astrophysics, I was able to go to ...

Since the 1990s, scientists have discovered approximately 6,100 planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets.

Russell W. Porter had a fascination with telescope-making that proved contagious: When he moved to Springfield, Vermont, in 1919, many townsfolk quickly became interested in his hobby, prompting ...