On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...

The NASA James Webb Space Telescope captured a stunning image of an Einstein ring, an optical phenomenon created by ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is ...

NASA’s NEO Surveyor, a spacecraft specifically designed to detect asteroids that could threaten Earth, is on track for a 2027 ...

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a stunning photograph of an Einstein ring. The European Space Agency (ESA) and ...

The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of ...

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

Believe it or not, we've seen a few optical illusions in space over the year. Well, we haven't seen them – the Hubble ...

The Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR) telescope has been imagined as a habitable planet hunter, but it could be so much ...

Astronomers from the University of Sheffield and Pennsylvania State University have performed X-ray and optical observations ...

NASA launched a new space telescope into orbit to explore the origins of the universe. The mission will use sophisticated ...

Over the past few years or so the most talked about kind of telescope was the one that is meant to operate in space. An ...