An illustration showing the final stage of a possible future giant telescope being created in space using fluids. Studio Ella Maru SHARE NASA is always searching for new ways to extend its ability to ...

Among the many experiments that crewmembers on the all-private Ax-1 mission will take part in during their one-week stay on the International Space Station is one that could help NASA build larger ...

NASA believes it may be on the bubble of creating a bigger and better space telescope. The bigger the telescope, the more light it collects, and the farther astronomers are able to gaze into the ...

In May 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) encountered a problem. The giant observatory, perched 1 million miles from Earth, has a honeycomb-like configuration of mirror panels to see the ...

High in the Himalayas, a new telescope is set to observe the night sky. The contraption has a 4-meter (13-foot) lens, but here’s the kicker: it’s made of liquid mercury, a material seldom used for ...

At 8,040 feet above sea level (2,450 meters) in Uttarakhand, India, lies a prime site for astronomical observations — Devasthal, 31 (52 kilometers) miles east of the resort town Nainital. Surrounded ...

The still-young James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has proven in the few years it has been up there, almost a million miles away from home, that a large telescope positioned just right is the perfect ...

India’s first liquid mirror telescope is up and running. It’s the first and largest liquid mercury telescope to be built at a high altitude, and if that isn’t impressive enough, it is also the first ...

A group of astronomers has been studying a 2008 proposal to build a telescope on the Moon. The telescope would be capable of peering back to the origins of the universe and could provide images of the ...