“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

Don't go looking for it—the flickering star is 2.2 million light-years ... the answer had to wait for the Hubble Space Telescope's legendary Hubble Deep Field in 1994. The most impactful finding ...

The final image clocks in at a whopping 2.5 gigapixels. Hubble gazes at galaxies all the time—the famous Hubble Deep Field images alone show countless galaxies in faraway parts of the universe.

For optical astronomy, the space station will be accompanied by the Xuntian telescope, which can be translated to “survey the ...

(Credit: Space Telescope Science Institute) Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion ... with the Deep Extragalactic Imaging Multi-Object Spectrograph (DEIMOS) at the W.M. Keck ...

NASA's Roman Space Telescope is preparing for launch in 2027, with a mission to study distant galaxies and explore dark energy.

It will have a sprawling field of view ... unlike the Hubble, it will not be in low Earth orbit. It’ll be where the Webb is, in a stable solar orbit called Lagrange point 2, or L2, roughly ...