Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on ...

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of ...

Scientists have developed an impossibly thin telescope lens that addresses a key astronomical challenge in a new study funded ...

An ambitious new survey by the Hubble Space Telescope offers the first bird's-eye view of all known dwarf galaxies orbiting the Andromeda galaxy. The data suggests Andromeda had a chaotic past unlike ...

Early simulations show that it would take only 10 hours for the forthcoming ELT to find signs of life near Proxima Centauri.

Scientists using two enormous telescopes — one on Earth and the other in space — have detected oxygen in the most ancient ...

This preferred direction of spin might be due to one of two reasons: either our entire universe exists in a black hole, or ...

Considering humans don't have a spacecraft capable of traveling to planets beyond the solar system, scientists have to get creative if they want to find clues of life existing light-years away. Now a ...

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