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The test took place inside a massive centrifuge that mimics the elevated gravity conditions of a space mission. NASA recently put a crucial part of the Roman Space Telescope — the Outer Barrel ...

NASA has revealed the first look at a full-scale prototype for six telescopes that will enable, in the next decade, the space-based detection of gravitational waves—ripples in space-time caused ...

Here’s how it works. The Hubble Space Telescope has captured an intricate portrait of two nearby stars that have been in close contact for centuries, revealing once again the complex yet ...

The Gemini North telescope atop Hawaii’s lofty shield volcano Mauna Kea. Credit: International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / J. Chu / J. Pollard A powerful telescope, perched above ...

A prime example is the European Space Agency’s wide-angle Euclid telescope that launched in 2023 to investigate the riddles of dark energy and dark matter. Euclid this week delivered the first ...

Each of the three probes will be outfitted with a pair of telescopes supplied by NASA, the prototypes of which the space agency revealed Tuesday. NASA has unveiled a prototype of six telescopes ...

The first piece of the Euclid space telescope's map of the universe is crammed with 14 million galaxies and 100 million sources of light. The mapping project is now 1% done. When you purchase ...

Now, a new observation from the James Webb Space Telescope appears to have confirmed this. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted a strange “inside-out” galaxy at the beginning of ...

Housed inside the Vera C. Rubin Observatory — a new telescope nearing completion on Cerro Pachón, a 2,682-meter (8,800-feet) tall mountain about 300 miles (482 kilometers) north of the Chilean ...

In its short existence, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has transformed our understanding of the universe. It has peered at planets, stars, galaxies and black holes, casting its eye over a ...

NASA has unveiled a prototype of six telescopes that in the years ahead will be part of a first-of-its kind mission to study a cosmic phenomenon that could hold clues about some of the universe's ...