The world's greatest space telescopes have all been round. Now, a new rectangular design could turbocharge our search for ...

Spotting Earth-like planets is nearly impossible with conventional telescopes, but researchers propose a bold fix: a ...

The Earth supports the only known life in the universe, all of it depending heavily on the presence of liquid water to ...

One of the boldest dreams in modern astronomy is the search for Earth-like worlds beyond our solar system. These exoplanets may hold oceans, rocky ground, and even atmospheres rich in oxygen or ...

The space-based telescope would be similar in size to the James Webb Space Telescope but with a 20-by-1-meter elongated ...

Technological limitations for manufacturing large, round telescopes has experts considering unconventional shapes to improve ...

This discovery is out of this world. For the first time since its operations began in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a direct image, published by the journal Nature, of a new ...

James Webb and Hubble telescopes join forces to explore a cosmic nursery: Space photo of the week James Webb telescope reveals dizzying galaxies in the Bullet Cluster ...