A long-delayed project to build the largest telescope in the Northern Hemisphere atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii has been given new ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected clouds made of silicates, similar to sand here on Earth, as well as water, ...

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This makes it appear correspondingly smaller through a telescope—infinitesimally smaller, in fact, appearing as only a point ...

A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces ...

In this woodturning project, I recreate the James Webb Space Telescope’s mirror array on an ebonised oak bowl. Each hexagon ...

In a recently published study, Tomonori Totani of the University of Tokyo's astronomy department claims to have observed ...

India and Japan are partnering on the Thirty Metre Telescope Project, aiming to study distant planets and search for extraterrestrial life.

The Thirty Metre Telescope unites India and Japan in space exploration. Expected to be operational by mid-2030s, scientists ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch between autumn 2026 and May 2027, is already surprising scientists ...

Optical telescopes utilize refraction and reflection to focus light, enabling detailed astronomical observations and ...

Scientists working with the James Webb Space Telescope discovered three unusual astronomical objects in early 2025, which may ...