STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — As of Monday, the sky is no longer the limit. Over the next 10 years, a digital camera the size of a car — the largest ...

Professional astronomers don’t make discoveries by looking through an eyepiece like you might with a backyard telescope. Instead ... day long looking at images equivalent to the size of a 4K ...

Broomfield-based BAE Systems (formerly Ball Aerospace) designed and built this 18-section, 21-foot mirror for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. The telescope is designed to capture images from ...

See composite views of the Cartwheel Galaxy captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy is 500 million light years away and has also been imaged by Hubble Space Telescope, comparison ...

Bending light unmasks dark matter The first trick for the Roman telescope involves gravitational lensing. This is Einstein’s idea that mass curves space so much that it warps passing light. When a ...

Scientists leading a high-priority observing program with NASA ’s James Webb Space Telescope have added two more rocky planets outside the solar system to their shortlist.

Pictures from NASA craft like the Hubble Space Telescope and the recently launched James Webb Space Telescope have inspired and delighted millions. Now, the agency’s position at the vanguard of ...

The 2004 image of the Messier 20 nebula captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI)) Meyer captured the ancient light cast out by ...

Researchers armed with the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed that some of Uranus' largest moons have one side brighter than the other — but not the side they were expecting.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the smallest brown dwarfs ever seen with the potential to form planets and surrounded by mysterious molecules.