Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. NASA’s newest space telescope has blasted off to map the entire sky like never before. Launched Tuesday ...

NASA’s two-for-one launch of its newest space telescope, SPHEREx — designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way — alongside a sun-focused mission called PUNCH is facing ...

What are you, SIMP 0136? Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to peer into this object flying by itself through our Milky Way galaxy. It's rapidly spinning, and at some 13 ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered into the atmosphere of a cosmic body that could be a rogue planet or a "failed star." Either way, the world wanders the cosmos ...

Menon’s solution is focused on larger-scale lenses used in telescopes and astrophotography, ensuring flat lenses can match the color preservation and light-focusing capabilities of curved ones. By ...

Using microscopic rings to manipulate light, this breakthrough could make space telescopes and astrophotography equipment much lighter and more practical. For centuries, lenses have relied on curved ...

Questions that have long eluded astronomers could finally be answered with the launch of an advanced space telescope NASA has spent years developing. Once in orbit, the instrument known as SPHEREx ...

NASA is ready to launch a space telescope to see the universe in a whole new way. The agency’s Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer ...

After discovering this curious world in 2020, scientists have now used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to peer into the exoplanet's atmosphere and better grasp how such a world works.

Groundbreaking flat lens enables telescopes to capture color and detect light from distant stars. Credit: LSST / CC BY 4.0 Engineers have created an innovative flat lens that enhances telescopes’ ...

Learn more › While standard telescopes are certainly cool devices, there is no shame in preferring a telescope for beginners if you’re just starting. Telescopes have multiple moving parts ...

As the hunt for dark matter, the universe's most common yet most mysterious "stuff," continues, scientists are understandably eager to get the most powerful space telescope in on the action.