Its CIVA (Comet Infrared and Visible Analyser) cameras took the first image of a human-made object touching a 4.6 ...
NASA's Roman Space Telescope has received its Optical Telescope Assembly, paving the way for its mission to explore the ...
AD: Birth of Tiberius, second emperor of the Roman Empire 1272: Henry III dies aged 65. 1380: French King Charles ...
A compound lens forged by two galaxies is helping astronomers get a bead on the Hubble Constant and dark energy.
New observations suggest that the universe’s oldest galaxies are brighter than expected. Here's why this may be a big deal.
An international team of scientists using observations from NASA-German satellites found evidence that Earth’s total amount ...
The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...
Not only that, but the second lens also magnifies the first – though not very bright, it can be seen in the images collected ...
The US Departments of Commerce and State (together, the Departments) have taken significant steps to update US export control rules pertaining ...
The James Webb Space Telescope's discovery of unusually bright and massive galaxies soon after the Big Bang has cast doubt on the standard model of galaxy evolution and bolstered a rival theory for ...
Upon arrival at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, the Optical Telescope Assembly for the agency's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was lifted out of the shipping fixture and placed with other ...
In this photo, optical engineer Bente Eegholm inspects the surface of the primary mirror for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. This 7.9-foot (2.4-meter) mirror is a major component of the ...