Our guide to the best smart telescopes that will help you observe and capture images of the cosmos with just a tap of your ...

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Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on amateur telescopes.

The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx) telescope was one of several proposal that were incorporated into the Habitable ...

Researchers mapped a far-infrared landscape brimming with nearly 2,000 galaxies. There may be "hidden galaxies" lurking just out of sight.

New optical technologies have revolutionized astronomy, from the invention of the telescope 400 years ago to more recent developments of adaptive optics and segmented mirrors. The next disruptive ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is an optical illusion.

NASA says observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered a surprising new twist in the study of a star ...