I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Children love looking up at the stars and imagining distant galaxies, but with just their eyes, they can only see so much.

It’s been a well-worn gag for years among astronomers: The James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to launch later this year. And always will be. Well, that joke is less potent now. Early on Christmas ...

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How can a sunshade on NASA’s Roman Space Telescope help protect the multi-billion-dollar instrument to conduct cutting-edge science? This is what NASA engineers hope to find out as they recently ...

Astronomers discover, witness birth of a solar system around distant star Images from two different telescopes give astronomers a glimpse at the formation of a "new" planetary system around a star ...