"We will push the limits of what we can observe, and use every gravitational lens we detect with Roman to pin down the ...

Each of the three probes will be outfitted with a pair of telescopes supplied by NASA, said Ryan DeRosa, a researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Building a large space telescope typically takes about two decades. The Chandra and XMM-Newton space telescopes took 23 years and 15 years to build, respectively.

L3Harris in Rochester played a pivotal role in building the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s massive secondary mirror, now part of the world’s most advanced sky-survey telescope.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

As the agency's SPHEREx space telescope and PUNCH solar mission rode toward their orbital stations tonight (March 11) at 11:10 p.m. EST (0310 March 12 GMT), members of mission control appeared ...

Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, launched in 2008 Media Platforms Design Team Organization: NASA, the U.S. Department of Energy, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Sweden ...

NASA’s twin Voyager probes, which launched 47 years ago, are shutting off some science instruments in an effort to conserve power and keep their storied missions going. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 ...

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Launching telescopes into space can get around these limitations. The Hubble Space Telescope’s operational history began when the space shuttle lifted it above the atmosphere on April 25 1990.

In recent decades, we’ve learnt huge amounts about the universe and its history. The rapidly developing technology of telescopes – both on Earth and in space – has been a key part of this process, and ...