NASA has ended the science mission of its Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory after nearly 22 years in orbit. The spacecraft made ...

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope has achieved nearly 30% better optical performance than required, promising stunningly sharp ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has exceeded expectations after engineers made incredibly tiny adjustments to ...

The Vaonis Vespera 3 has the same sensor and aperture as its predecessor, but its sharper, more colorful images, superb ...

DWARFLAB develops smart telescopes designed to make astronomical observation and astrophotography more accessible ...

Telescopes orbiting Earth can peer billions of light-years into space to observe incredible phenomena across the cosmos.

10-Jun-2026 at 2:00 PM EDT, by University of California San Diego Newswise — A new telescope technology — measuring just six millimeters in diameter — could improve how future space missions study and ...

As the largest optical telescope in the world, the ELT will allow scientists to dive further into our universe than ever before. The ELT’s 39-metre ‘eye on the sky’ will capture some of the clearest ...

Today, April 11, 2006, The Planetary Society dedicated a new optical telescope at an observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts — one designed solely to search for light ...

This video shows some of the most important optical telescopes designed and built since Galileo’s time. It highlights how the primary lenses and mirrors of telescopes have increased in size in the ...

A research team from the University of Tokyo/Kavli IPMU, Ehime University, and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has succeeded in conducting the first, full-scale scientific ...

A private spacecraft failed to rescue NASA's Swift space telescope, meaning the big observatory will come crashing back to Earth in the near future. But details are sparse at the moment.