Mock observations test the performance of the Chinese Space Station Telescope as the 2-meter-class observatory moves closer ...

A first-of-its-kind space telescope could soon launch into orbit and potentially chart a new path forward for astronomy.

China’s Xuntian space telescope completed a full performance simulation, confirming operational readiness for its planned ...

A billionaire-backed philanthropic organization is funding the development of a series of new observatories, including a ...

New Space is a term now commonly used around the rocketry and satellite industries to indicate a new, speed focused model of ...

NASA has selected L3Harrist o develop advanced optics and mirror systems for the Habitable Worlds Observatory, a flagship space telescope searching for life beyond Earth.

Commercial satellites in orbit, which are largely owned by Elon Musk's SpaceX, are blocking images of the cosmos taken from both the ground and in space. A study released by Nature earlier this month ...

2025 MN45 isn't the overall spin-rate record holder. Astronomers have found a number of small asteroids — those just a few ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NASA has tapped startup Katalyst to save a $500 million orbiting observatory from falling into Earth's atmosphere by launching a spacecraft meant to push it farther in space, a ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt's Lazuli, the first private space telescope in history, could fly to space as soon as 2029.

Every year, all telescopes on Earth and in space combined discover around 20,000 new asteroids. In just its first ten hours of activity, a single new observatory discovered 2,104 asteroids, or in ...

Our planet is surrounded by a halo of ultraviolet light invisible to the naked eye, a celestial phenomenon that scientists have been trying to understand for over half a century. This enigmatic glow, ...