This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...
A NASA space telescope on a mission to map millions of galaxies has turned on its detectors for the first time, capturing ...
On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...
An analysis of two decades of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided fresh insights into the complex ...
Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of ...
NASA’s SPHEREx telescope has sent back its first infrared images from space, confirming it is fully operational. The mission aims to scan millions of galaxies and explore cosmic origins.
The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...
NASA has put its recently launched SPHEREx space telescope into operation. The scientific mission is due to begin at the end ...
Scientists have developed an impossibly thin telescope lens that addresses a key astronomical challenge in a new study funded ...
Elon Musk faces a conflict of interest in supporting a space telescope helpful to SpaceX but attacking programs that benefit ...