"We found something never seen before and, more importantly, entirely unexpected," team leader Simone Scaringi of Durham ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

Since its launch on Christmas Day, 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has proven its worth year after year. 2024 is no exception. Here are just five times the ultrapowerful telescope has reshaped ...

China is preparing to send a new kind of eye into orbit, a space observatory built to map the cosmos with a breadth and ...

A futuristic telescope design could one day let scientists finally look at fine details of the atmosphere of Earth-sized exoplanets — confirming if some are potentially habitable worlds. It would do ...

Using the Super Proton Synchrotron, the team created beams of electron-positron pairs and passed them through a meter-long region of plasma. This setup served as a scaled laboratory version of a ...

The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...

Scientists using a continent-wide array of radio telescopes have made an extremely precise measurement of the curvature of space caused by the Sun’s gravity, and their technique promises a major ...

The photo is even better than scientists hoped it would be. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has conducted observations on the Orion nebula, revealing something that has peaked the interest of astronomers. The Webb telescope pointed its extremely ...