Researchers will mine data from NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which will survey the same areas of the sky every ...

Now, a team of scientists are preparing to use NASA's upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) to test different theories ...

NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to revolutionize our understanding of the universe with an ...

New images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show young stars forming within a "toe bean" on the Cat's Paw Nebula.

The mighty James Webb and Hubble space telescopes united to reveal stars being born inside the Small Magellanic Cloud, which ...

What should we expect from the next generation of space telescopes? What key scientific questions will they help answer? Do we have the technology we need to operate them in 20-30 years? To address ...

They will also consider whether future SpaceX missions could service Hubble, the way NASA astronauts used to do it before their rides to orbit, the space shuttles, were retired in 2011.

1. All future space telescopes will be foldable (and larger) The great challenge for engineers working on Webb was how to get a space telescope with a 21 feet/6.5 meter mirror—the largest ever ...

Experts have confirmed that the mysterious object hurtling towards us, previously dubbed A11pl3Z, is an "interstellar object.

The telescope is named for James Webb, who oversaw NASA’s moon landing program. But to some astronomers, Webb is also known for working in the State Department during the “Lavender Scare ...

To study those worlds, this future space telescope would need to blot out the shine of distant stars, since the light of small planets is about 10 billion times fainter than starlight. NASA doesn ...

NASA has two telescopes in storage, donated by the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) in 2012, which could be used for a mission called WFIRST-AFTA (Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope ...