The 2,000-pound platform that engineers will use to precisely align the Webb telescope’s enormous five-layer sunshield is completed, with work slated to begin on flight-like template membranes early ...

Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications offer you ...

The modern telescope is a window into the universe, a sophisticated paintbrush in the hands of skilled astronomers that brings the fantastical wonders of the cosmos into view. And in so doing, ...

Since the dawn of time, ancient stargazers and astronomers such as Galileo and Copernicus had to make do with a blurred view of the heavens through Earth's atmopshere, which distorts and blocks the ...