Space telescopes have always been defined as much by their rockets as by their mirrors. When every kilogram to orbit costs a ...

GREENBELT, Md. – The tennis court-sized sunshield built by Northrop Grumman for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has completed its preliminary design review at the company’s Space Technology facility ...

GREENBELT, Md. – A preliminary design review has concluded and verified the integrated performance of all subsystems in the Optical Telescope Element on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The Optical ...

A new study finds a rectangular mirror design could uncover 25+ habitable exoplanets in just 3.5 years using current technology. The design solves a longstanding problem in exoplanet detection: ...

The University of Texas at Austin's Daniel T. Jaffe has been appointed as the new president of the Giant Magellan Telescope ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has already captured some incredible images of our universe, with some game-changing insights to boot. But researchers at New York's Rensselaer Polytechnic ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope is under construction in a Chilean desert, one of the best places on Earth to view space Credit: photo via GiantMagellan.Org UT-Austin just took a big step in its process ...

NASA has awarded contracts to seven American companies to develop technologies for the planned Habitable Worlds Observatory.

On Wednesday evening, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, announced a major investment in not just one ...

The Schmidts' philanthropic research organization will build a 3-meter space telescope and fund three ground-based facilities.

The fate of telescopes in space is looking better now that they are being designed to be serviceable. Researchers developed a servicing plan that can be applied to future space observatories based on ...