The best telescopes for astrophotography are ideal for both stargazing enthusiasts and those who want to capture the cosmos with their cameras. So which model should you buy? Well, that depends a lot ...

The Chandra X-Ray Observatory (above) and Hubble Space Telescope could face budget cuts as NASA deals with overall spending reductions. Credit: NASA/CXC & J. Vaughan WASHINGTON — NASA has ...

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. The powerful Euclid ...

At the heart of this groundbreaking technology are the twin telescopes aboard each spacecraft. Nasa is responsible for providing all six of these crucial components. The recently unveiled prototype, ...

Housed inside the Vera C. Rubin Observatory — a new telescope nearing completion on Cerro Pachón, a 2,682-meter (8,800-feet) tall mountain about 300 miles (482 kilometers) north of the Chilean ...

The Gemini North telescope atop Hawaii’s lofty shield volcano Mauna Kea. Credit: International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / J. Chu / J. Pollard A powerful telescope, perched above ...

NASA has revealed the first look at a full-scale prototype for six telescopes that will enable, in the next decade, the space-based detection of gravitational waves—ripples in space-time caused ...

In its short existence, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has transformed our understanding of the universe. It has peered at planets, stars, galaxies and black holes, casting its eye over a ...

Now, a new observation from the James Webb Space Telescope appears to have confirmed this. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted a strange “inside-out” galaxy at the beginning of ...

Here’s how it works. The Hubble Space Telescope has captured an intricate portrait of two nearby stars that have been in close contact for centuries, revealing once again the complex yet ...

The bright stars in JWST's image all have six large and two small snowflake-like diffraction spikes because of the way light travels as a wave from the 18 hexagonal mirrors in the telescope's ...

The test took place inside a massive centrifuge that mimics the elevated gravity conditions of a space mission. NASA recently put a crucial part of the Roman Space Telescope — the Outer Barrel ...