From this route, the resulting exoplanet would be expected to share roughly the same composition as its parent star. ‘The ...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky ...

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the most powerful ... using a gold-plated beryllium mirror, an advanced sunshield, and an ultra-sensitive infrared detection system to study distant ...

As the agency's SPHEREx space telescope and PUNCH solar mission rode toward their orbital stations tonight (March 11) at ...

X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astronomy. The biggest names in telescopes, like ...

Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...

Some of the anticipation surrounding the $488 million SPHEREx mission mirrors what we saw on Christmas Day in 2021, when scientists launched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) toward its ...

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to peer into this object ... and may for years to come: - Giant mirror: Webb's mirror, which captures light, is over 21 feet across.

The search giant should’ve been first to the chatbot revolution. It wasn’t. So it punched back with late nights, layoffs—and ...

with a mirror as large as the 6.5-meter mirror on JWST. And some astronomers envision one considerably larger. Although this spacecraft would investigate both solar system objects and distant ...