Scientists in Japan have developed a high-resolution X-ray telescope sharp enough to distinguish an object just 3.5 mm wide from one kilometer away, by combining precision mirror-making technology ...

Advances in quantum technology might allow astronomers to circumvent age-old issues that limit the size of optical observatories ...

NASA's Webb telescope analyzes weather on distant exoplanet WASP-94A b, revealing extreme atmospheric patterns 700 lightyears ...

As the Sun sets over the dry plains of rural Texas, something unusual begins to happen inside a series of long metal ...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, recently announced that they would finance, out of their own pocket, a number of new observatories, including a space telescope dubbed “Lazuli.” ...

New photos show off NASA's newly constructed Roman Space Telescope, which will soon help researchers unravel the mysteries of the cosmos. Experts have also revealed when the next-gen spacecraft is set ...

On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried NASA's new exoplanet telescope, Pandora, ...

NASA has released an extensive cosmic map of the night sky, created from eight years of data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). This image features over 6,000 bright dots ...

NASA unveiled a new telescope on Tuesday to scan vast swaths of the universe for planets outside our solar system and probe the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy. The Roman space telescope is ...

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HALIFAX — The work of researchers from across Canada is at the heart of a massive new telescope that could help unlock some of the biggest mysteries of the universe from its perch at one of the ...