NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has achieved a groundbreaking feat by definitively detecting crystalline ice water in the young star system HD 181327, located 155 light-years away. This marks ...

Beyond the JUST project, China's FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope) continues to lead global advancements in radio astronomy. Located in Southwest China's Guizhou ...

The world's most famous telescope is celebrating in style with new views of Mars, nebulas and a galaxy that reminds us of home. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with ...

Although the Inouye Solar Telescope began operating from its perch on the Hawaiian volcano Haleakala in 2022, the addition of its latest key piece of equipment provides a major boost to its spatial, ...

Just how powerful is the world's most powerful telescope? Let's start with the human eye. The human eye has an angular resolution of about 1 arcminute. That's pretty impressive. Take a circle ...

As part of their ongoing celebration of the Hubble Space Telescope's 35th anniversary, NASA and ESA have shared a new image of the Eagle Nebula, specifically a "spire of cosmic gas and dust" that ...

The Subaru Telescope in Hawai‘i is adding a new instrument to its arsenal, one that will observe the cosmos through a compound eye. The compound eye will allow Subaru to observe about 2,400 ...

The next great space telescope will study distant galaxies and faraway planets from an orbital outpost about a million miles from Earth. But first it has to be put together, piece by piece ...

The Arecibo Observatory's giant radio telescope in Puerto Rico suffered a cataclysmic failure in December 2020. Credit: Walter Bibikow / DigitalVision / Getty Images Powerful electromagnetic ...

China has kicked off of a second phase of construction to enhance the capabilities of what is already the world's largest single-dish radio telescope. The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical ...

The telescope began as a relatively simple device, born out of optical experimentation. It combined a series of lenses and mirrors to collect and magnify light, allowing the user to see far away ...

Big news for space enthusiasts: The James Webb Space Telescope, renowned for its remarkable ability to peer deep into the universe, has recently turned its gaze toward a particularly distant and ...