Karen Abarca was a Los Angeles-based costume designer during her early 20s, but a trip to Death Valley inspired her to switch ...

Fraunhofer researchers want to use laser communication telescope to modernize satellite infrastructure and keep pace with ...

The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

To understand gravitational lensing and dark matter, James Jee, a professor at Yonsei University, says to think of a pond ...

Texas astronomers are part of the effort to construct the Giant Magellan Telescope – an effort that will bring a new level of ...

In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects.

Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), an enormous ground-based telescope currently under construction in Chile's Atacama Desert ...

Astronomers are excited about the first test images released today from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which show the ...

NASA is getting closer to building the powerful telescopes needed to find Earth-like planets beyond our solar system, thanks ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet using the direct-imaging technique. The host star's light was ...

The game-changing Vera C. Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes ...