Earth crosses through Saturn’s “ring plane,” making the gas giant’s most iconic feature become nearly invisible ...

What began as a high-tech conference on Maui with 300 attendees more than 25 years ago has grown into a gathering of more ...

Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on ...

The Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR) telescope has been imagined as a habitable planet hunter, but it could be so much ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is ...

What's on and in a star? What happens in an active galactic nucleus? Answering those questions is the goal of a proposed ...

Over the past few years or so the most talked about kind of telescope was the one that is meant to operate in space. An ...

The world's largest telescope is almost as big as your house—and it’s unlocking the universe’s biggest mysteries.

H.H. Sheikh Sultan bin Ahmed bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Deputy Ruler of Sharjah and President of the University of Sharjah, ...

NASA launched a new space telescope into orbit to explore the origins of the universe. The mission will use sophisticated ...

The European Space Agency has released the first batch of large-scale images from the Euclid space telescope, which ...

Here's how an innovative flat lens could solve these problems for satellites and space-based telescopes. Understanding ...