Faced with the complicated job of putting together the $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope, NASA and lead contractor Northrop Grumman are starting to run practice assembly tests using a ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn Scientists working on NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope have ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is one giant step closer to unlocking the mysteries of the universe. The mission has now received its final major delivery: the Optical Telescope Assembly, ...

NASA/GSFC is soliciting information about potential sources for the Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM) Telescope Assembly. The JDEM is a space-based, medium aperture, wide field, optical telescope with ...

Upon arrival at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, the Optical Telescope Assembly for the agency's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was lifted out of the shipping fixture and placed with other ...

NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), the largest airborne observatory in the world, will receive a key component today when its telescope assembly arrives in Waco, Texas, ...