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

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

Astronomers using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to survey distant galaxies spotted an unusual, chance phenomenon ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

It's not every day that a prominent feature of our solar system disappears, but that's precisely what will happen with Saturn ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

What began as a high-tech conference on Maui with 300 attendees more than 25 years ago has grown into a gathering of more ...