Astronomers have catalogued billions of stars and hundreds of billions of galaxies. We have found thousands of planets ...

The first in a new class of space telescopes is on track to reach the launch pad in the early 2030s, NASA announced this week ...

NASA has committed $1.2 billion to build PRIMA, a far-infrared space telescope that will not launch until 2033. The agency ...

The private spacecraft sent to help an aging NASA telescope has begun its return to Earth after the rescue attempt failed.

Research initiated as part of a bachelor's thesis in physics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) has culminated in ...

Overview Smart telescopes automate much of the process of finding, tracking, and imaging celestial objects, while traditional ...

In recent decades, we've learned huge amounts about the universe and its history. The rapidly developing technology of telescopes—both on Earth and in space—has been a key part of this process, and ...

Of all the objects that you can view through a telescope, some of the most stunning to behold are the planets in our solar system, and the galaxies that lie far beyond it. But if you want to see more ...

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Imagine having a telescope that could see almost 14 billion years back in time to when the universe was just forming. There is a project underway called CMB-S4 that plans to build two next-generation ...

Gemini South on the summit of Cerro Pachón in Chile (left) and Gemini North on the summit of Maunakea in Hawai’i (right). Gemini / NSF / AURA Hackers have launched an apparent cyberattack on the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Barry Collins is a tech journalist writing about PCs, Macs and games. When you think of a telescope, you think of an enormous long ...