Our cosmic home, the solar system, contains incredible planets and magnificent celestial objects, all held together with the ...

Scientists use telescopes capable of viewing the universe across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Astronomy : Roen Kelly How do we create telescopes that see different parts of the ...

Refractor to reflector, Schmidt-Cassegrain to Maksutov-Cassegrain - this is everything you need to know about the different types of telescopes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Staff at the European Southern Observatory have a system to clean the La Silla Observatory's delicate mirrors without breaking them.

The galactic masterpiece combines over 100 exposures to reveal previously unseen features of stars in formation.

The telescope’s two infrared cameras — the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), each tuned to different parts of the light spectrum — can also peer past the ...

Due to how light travels, we can only see the most eye-popping details of space—like nebulas, supernovas, and black holes—with specialized telescopes.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope surveyed the universe in the mid-infrared and parts of the far infrared spectrum from 2003 to 2020. ESA's Herschel spacecraft complemented this work in the far ...

Scenes of nebulas in the Milky Way, a cluster of galaxies and thousands of new asteroids are a teaser of how the U.S.-funded ...

Webb Telescope Spots Infant Planets in Different Stages of Development By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The James Webb Space Telescope has observed two large planets at different stages of ...

Natarajan was part of a team that recently used both the new James Webb Space Telescope and X-ray data from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory to find a supermassive black hole in a different part of ...

The fate of the most powerful X-ray telescope is in doubt NASA's budget proposal would basically axe the most powerful X-ray telescope in the world, and astronomers are scrambling to save it. Space ...