"Our results don't solve the mystery of the Wow! Signal, but they give us the clearest picture yet of what it was and where ...

The upcoming launch of NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope should let astronomers see what some of the universe's first stars and galaxies looked like soon after the Big Bang.

In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, Rowan Hooper explores the advances ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is going to be big in every conceivable way. The mirror section, comprising the main optics of the telescope, is about three stories tall, comprised of 18 mirrors ...

The telescope’s discoveries will include millions of supernovas exploding across the universe and millions of asteroids flying through our solar system. What’s New About This Telescope?

Staff at the European Southern Observatory have a system to clean the La Silla Observatory's delicate mirrors without breaking them. Big telescopes feature some of the finest and most precise ...

Big telescopes on big launchers In 2021, the National Academies released a once-in-a-decade review of the top astronomy and astrophysics priorities for the US science community.

NASA’s newest big telescope orbiting Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope, is currently pointed right at a constellation iconic to Alaskans: the Big Dipper. That, of course, is what’s on the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope will let scientists study small, rocky planets around distant stars in more detail than ever before. After decades of work, it could head into orbit later this year.

The upcoming launch of NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope should let astronomers see what some of the universe's first stars and galaxies looked like soon after the Big Bang.

The Giant Magellan Telescope will be the largest telescope ever built on Earth and it will provide a window into the beginnings of our universe.

Big telescopes feature some of the finest and most precise mirrors in the world. So when one gets dirty, what happens? The European Southern Observatory (ESO) operates some of the most powerful ...