Called SPHEREx, and set for launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base no sooner than Tuesday night, ...

In a recent update describing the progress of the construction of the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the European Southern Observatory (ESO) shared a photo of the dome that will protect the ...

For centuries, lenses have worked the same way: curved glass or plastic bending light to bring images into focus. But ...

The ESO's Very Large Telescope provided crucial data needed to calculate the asteroid's orbit. The potential risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 dropped to nearly zero following new ...

How did the universe begin? A compact NASA space telescope that uses less power than a refrigerator is poised to chip away at that very large question. Called SPHEREx, and set for launch on a ...

NASA is preparing to launch a megaphone-shaped observatory on a mission to better understand what happened immediately after ...

Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets tend to have more circular orbits. This split coincides with several other ...

Close up of the stairways up to the top of ESO's Extremely Large Telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert. | Credit: ESO/G. Vecchia These mirrors will allow astronomers to peer into the cosmos like ...

Using the ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), scientists have been able to prove into its atmosphere, revealing its 3D structure. This is the first time that this has been ...

The more powerful they get, traditional curved lenses used in telescopes become bigger and bulkier. University of Utah ...

"Our demonstration is a stepping stone towards creating very large aperture lightweight flat lenses with the capability of capturing full-color images for use in air-and-space-based telescopes ...