Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover that a distant "hot Jupiter" planet has two ...

Conventional telescopes are limited in detecting low-surface-brightness (LSB) structures, which are essential for studying ...

However, astronomers in Hawaii just spotted a pair of exciting discoveries — a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf — using Japan ...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), now under construction in the Chilean Andes, is set to revolutionize the field of ...

On a mountaintop in northern Chile, the world’s largest digital camera is preparing to power up. Its mission is simple yet ambitious — to photograph the entire night sky in extreme detail and unlock ...

A long-delayed project to build the largest telescope in the Northern Hemisphere atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii has been given new ...

SPIE ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPES + INSTRUMENTATION TO HIGHLIGHT LATEST ENGINEERING ADVANCEMENTS IN MAJOR TELESCOPE PROJECTS INCLUDING JWST The biennial meeting, held in person for the first time since ...

Astronomers have long been concerned about reflections from satellites showing up in images taken by telescopes and other ...

An exponential increase in the number of satellites placed in low-Earth orbit has brought advances in telecommunications ...

A new NASA-led study found that the increasing number of satellites in low-Earth orbit could ruin up to 96% of images from ...

Compelling evidence that the structure of matter surrounding supermassive black holes has changed over cosmic time has been ...

NASA's report, published in Nature, predicts that around 40% of all Hubble images will have at least one satellite streak in ...