Numerous scientific fingers are being anxiously crossed and recrossed as astronomers from Toronto to Plesetsk, Russia, await news of the launch today of Canada's small and "humble" space telescope.

The Virtual Telescope Project will be livestreaming the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS tonight at 11:15pm ET. The massive ...

Dec 24 (Reuters) - The James Webb Space Telescope, a NASA instrument designed to allow humankind's first glimpse of the infant universe as it existed when the earliest galaxies are believed to have ...

Olivia Lim has never known a universe unpopulated by alien worlds. Before she was born, a handful of planets had already been discovered beyond our own solar system. While she was growing up in St.

Santa won’t be the only one taking flight this Christmas Eve, as scientists prepare to launch a telescope that has its sights set on seeing, well, everything in the cosmos. The James Webb Space ...

They may have to compete with entrepreneurs flocking to the moon for business and mining. Gazing at the moon, you may see a face or a round of cheese, but some astronomers see the ideal spot for their ...