The Simons Observatory, a most advanced network of telescopes aimed at mapping the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) with unprecedented precision, has reached a major milestone: the Large Aperture ...

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

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

There are many different types of lasers—almost as many as there are applications for the same—but what ties them all ...

What can Venus-like exoplanets, also known as exoVenuses, teach us about our own solar system and potentially finding life ...

Black hole research is vital because it sheds light on the foundational characteristics of the universe, such as how gravity, space, and time behave 1. They serve as harsh testing grounds for ...

Definition: Radio astronomy is a subfield of astronomy that studies celestial objects at radio frequencies. The initial detection of radio waves from the astronomical object was created in the 1930s ...

This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...

Called a Cascaded-mode interferometer, it is a single waveguide on a silicon-on-insulator platform that can create multiple ...

A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake hit central Myanmar (formerly Burma) Friday (March 28), shaking Mandalay, the country's second-largest city, as well as nearby countries, including China and ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified an ancient and faraway galaxy that provides evidence that an ...