NASA is quietly entertaining one of the most audacious telescope concepts ever proposed: using the Sun itself as a giant lens. By steering a spacecraft to the distant region where the Sun’s gravity ...

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How space telescopes capture distant galaxies using infrared imaging, precision optics, and astronomy technology beyond Earth ...

Hubble keeps returning to the Egg Nebula because it changes in ways astronomers can actually track over years and decades. By comparing images taken at different times, scientists can see dust shift, ...

The new ones – National Large Solar Telescope and National Large Optical-Near Infrared Telescope – will offer Indian ...

A plan to build a light-polluting green hydrogen plant near one of the world's most important astronomical observatories has ...

One of the mirrors of NASA’s huge new space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, was hit by a small space rock larger ...

Both the telescope facilities are slated to come up in Ladakh, which already has several operational sky observation facilities, including the Chandra telescope.

There’s really no reason you can’t use binoculars to look into space – and in fact astronomers have been working on doing so ...

Technicians have completed the construction of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The Roman observatory is slated to ...

The telescope has a primary mirror of 94.5 inches (2.4 m) and weighs almost 828 kg. It is made up of ultra-low expansion glass. The mirror is coated with a thin reflective layer of 4 millionths of an ...

A story of the impressive Chandra X-ray Observatory, how the telescope works, and the sad recent news of budget cuts halting research.