The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch around May 2027, the agency has said, and will let us unravel ...

The Hubble Space Telescope was carried to space inside the space shuttle Discovery and then released into low-Earth orbit.

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

Space-based telescopes are remarkable. Their view isn't obscured by the weather in our atmosphere, and so they can capture ...

The Roman Telescope is being built at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where the coronagraph recently arrived after being ...

These are just a taste of the discoveries made by the $10 billion Webb telescope since it began science observations in 2022.

In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...

Two of the world's most powerful space telescopes have spied a spooky pair of galaxies in deep space, staring out like a pair ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons missions have observed Uranus, providing different ... [+] views from across the solar system, to help the study of exoplanets. Two of NASA'’s most ...

Webb's mirror, which captures light, is over 21 feet across. That's over two-and-a-half times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope's mirror. Capturing more light allows Webb to see more distant ...

The test took place inside a massive centrifuge that mimics the elevated gravity conditions of a space mission.