American space agency NASA readies the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope for integration, launch could come as soon as next ...

This makes it appear correspondingly smaller through a telescope—infinitesimally smaller, in fact, appearing as only a point ...

Photographing the deep sky at night can be a complicated business involving specialist knowledge, expensive and bulky ...

A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces ...

When NASA launched its $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope in 2021, scientists hailed the mission as the greatest achievement of its kind in over three decades. Soon, however, scientists noticed a ...

A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of the Butterfly Nebula, a grand and graceful cosmic wonder. The ...

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Space exploration has changed how we look at the universe, but it's costly, and some of the most iconic NASA missions are also among the most expensive.

There's no better time than now to embrace the majesty of the night sky to begin a lifelong journey with amateur astronomy ...