“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...
A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...
Explore the James Webb Space Telescope's incredible discovery: a cosmic alignment revealing the teenage years of our Milky Way galaxy.
"The operations work at STScI, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and other NASA contractors is funded by the operational ...
On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...
A small blue dwarf galaxy passed through the massive Bullseye galaxy. This impact created nine rings of new stars.
Now, a century later, the space telescope named for Hubble has ... Essentially a wide-angle version of Hubble (with the same sized mirror), Roman will capture the equivalent of at least 100 ...
NASA wants to view the Big Bang with this behemoth, so it's saying goodbye to the James Webb Telescope. The new one redefines ...
The telescope will be roughly the size of the Hubble Space Telescope ... concave primary mirror, 2.4 meters (7.9 feet) in diameter. The primary mirror sits beneath a smaller, secondary mirror ...