The James Webb Space Telescope is one of the most impressive pieces of technology ever made, but that doesn't mean it needs to draw a lot of power to function.

Scientists in Japan have developed a high-resolution X-ray telescope sharp enough to distinguish an object just 3.5 mm wide from one kilometer away, by combining precision mirror-making technology ...

NASA offers a simple way to see which stunning celestial image the Hubble Space Telescope captured on your birthday.

New photos show off NASA's newly constructed Roman Space Telescope, which will soon help researchers unravel the mysteries of the cosmos. Experts have also revealed when the next-gen spacecraft is set ...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is trying to do for astronomy what cheap cloud computing did for software, backing a space telescope larger than Hubble at a cost he describes as “ridiculously” low ...

The world’s first commercial space science telescope, Mauve, just sent back data from low-Earth orbit, achieving “first light” — and signaling a potential new era for low-cost observation. Launched ...

On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried NASA's new exoplanet telescope, Pandora, ...

Advances in quantum technology might allow astronomers to circumvent age-old issues that limit the size of optical observatories ...

New telescope instruments are pushing galaxy observation far beyond what was possible a decade ago. Advances in space telescope technology now allow astronomers to study billions of galaxies across ...

NASA has released an extensive cosmic map of the night sky, created from eight years of data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). This image features over 6,000 bright dots ...

As the Sun sets over the dry plains of rural Texas, something unusual begins to happen inside a series of long metal ...