In 2026, astronauts will travel around the Moon for the first time since the Apollo era, powerful new space telescopes will ...

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young star flinging heat-formed crystals outward on a cosmic conveyor belt, ...

A spectacular new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate structures inside the Helix Nebula, where a ...

In the next few years, we will see some incredible observatories comie online. The Vera Rubin Observatory's science campaign ...

New photos show off NASA's newly constructed Roman Space Telescope, which will soon help researchers unravel the mysteries of ...

Astronomers at The University of Manchester have played a leading role in the discovery of a new cosmic object that is much ...

Space telescopes have always been defined as much by their rockets as by their mirrors. When every kilogram to orbit costs a fortune, engineers are forced into intricate origami, exotic materials, and ...

After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A couple more test flights, and SpaceX plans to launch it into orbit. A month ...

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Space telescopes are all the rage, and rightfully so. The images they take are spectacular, and they’ve greatly increased what we know about the universe. Surely, any picture taken of, say, ...