John Mather spent decades making the James Webb Space Telescope a reality ... a giant project currently under construction in the high deserts of Chile, will survey the whole sky looking for ...

Construction projects valued €300 million ... that the scientific and technological prerequisites for the SKA telescope in South Africa (known as SKA-Mid) are in place.

We may earn a commission from links on this page. An artist’s concept of LUVOIR, a 15-meter telescope that was an early NASA concept for a future space telescope. The newly described Habitable ...

Scientists were in awe of the flood of data that arrived when the new space observatory booted up. The James Webb Space Telescope is one of MIT Technology Review’s 10 Breakthrough Technologies ...

This space-based telescope will peer out into space ... NEO Surveyor will be a game-changer in that effort." Construction of NEO Surveyor recently began, with the aim to launch it in 2028 into ...

Once the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) began operations last year, the comparisons began. Astronomers and others online posted side-by-side images of the same celestial objects captured by ...

The MeerKAT telescope is an array of 64 interlinked receptors situated 90km outside the small Northern Cape town of Carnarvon. It is a precursor to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope and ...

The radio signal, captured by the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope in India, was in the galaxy known as SDSSJ0826+5630. Researchers at McGill University and the Indian Institute of Science studied ...

The Hubble Space Telescope caught an unexpected asteroid streaking across a field of distant galaxies. In the image, released on Monday (Jan. 16) by the European Space Agency (ESA), the asteroid ...

The James Webb Space Telescope peered inside a wispy molecular cloud located 630 light-years away and spied ices made of different elements.Molecular clouds are interstellar groupings of gas and ...