Telescope

Mike Werner: We had no conception at all that we'd be doing this for 15 years as successfully as we have been. Lisa Storrie-Lombardi: We are beyond where we thought we would be, beyond the engineering limits that this was planned…

The China Space Station Telescope (CSST) stands as a beacon of scientific opportunity and enduring legacy, complementing upcoming space-based and ground-based surveys with its extensive wavelength coverage and remarkable angular…

Carlyn Kranking Assistant Editor, Science and Innovation…

What GAO Found Since 2019, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project, one of the agency's most complex science missions, has made considerable progress toward launch—now…

The Spektr-RG spacecraft carries the eROSITA X-ray telescopehttps://www.flickr.com/photos/dlr_de/48092029201/in/album-72157709154538987/ DLR (CC-BY 3.0) The widest X-ray survey of the night sky has revealed some of…

An artist’s rendering of a pantheon of planets similar to Earth NASA / Ames / JPL-Caltech…

When she’s in Chile, Margaux Lopez starts most days nine thousand feet below her place of work. At 6:30 a.m. she boards a bus to begin the steep climb from La Serena, Chile’s second-oldest city, to the top of Cerro Pachón, a mountain in…

Traveling alongside Webb as it grew and evolved, and to be able to add my signature to each photograph captured, was of course an honor, but also an immense challenge. With each image, I wanted to express the awe that I felt seeing Webb…

Introducing NASA’s Curious Universe Our universe is a wild and wonderful place. Join NASA astronauts, scientists and engineers on a new adventure each week — all you need is your curiosity. Visit the Amazon rainforest, explore faraway…

Introducing NASA’s Curious Universe Our universe is a wild and wonderful place. Join NASA astronauts, scientists and engineers on a new adventure each week — all you need is your curiosity. Go asteroid hunting, explore faraway…

JWST MINI SERIES EPISODE 1: Webb Space Telescope: Into the Unknown Introducing NASA’s Curious Universe Our universe is a wild and wonderful place. Join NASA astronauts, scientists and engineers on a new adventure each week — all you…

JWST Mini, Episode Three: “Webb Space Telescope: The Global Village” Introducing NASA’s Curious Universe Our universe is a wild and wonderful place. Join NASA astronauts, scientists, and engineers on a new adventure each week — all you…

JWST Mini, Episode Four: Go For Launch with ESA’s Ariane 5 Expert Estimated Run Time: Introducing NASA’s Curious Universe Our universe is a wild and wonderful place. Join NASA astronauts, scientists, and engineers on a new adventure…

The figure represents the γ-ray light curve of Sag A* in the γ-ray band at a 3σ confidence level from 2022 June 22 up to 2022 December 19 with a record of 180 days.…

Artist's illustration of the extremely energetic cosmic ray observed by a surface detector array of the Telescope Array experiment, named "Amaterasu particle." Credit:…