A team of NASA researchers is developing new types of optical masks that could help enable the many orders of magnitude of ...

Video above: NASA showcases images of Mars taken by James Webb Space TelescopeA new image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope shows rings of dust plumes created by the violent interactions ...

The first images released from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) revealed new views of the cosmos in exquisite, never-before-seen detail. This was thanks in large part to the careful construction ...

Did you have the same question as I did when you looked at the spectacular first light images from the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or “Webb” for short)? Yes, they are all incredible, ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The latest image captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope might be one of the observatory’s ...

Today, astronomers seek to observe the faintest and most distant objects possible. Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs), with apertures in the order of several dozen meters, are the next generation ...

Camilo Garzón: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I'm Camilo Garzón. In July, The White House released the first image of the collection of pictures from the James Webb Space Telescope - ...

No one actually sees a star when they look through a typical telescope, just a diffraction pattern. But a team of astronomers using multiple telescopes and a special instrument revealed not only the ...

This image is dominated by NGC 7469, a luminous, face-on spiral galaxy approximately 90 000 light-years in diameter that lies roughly 220 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus.

Just how big would a telescope need to be to actually see an alien world in detail? The James Webb Telescope just took a photo of a newly discovered exoplanet. Exciting stuff but the raw image just ...

Visual demonstration of the performance of the diffraction grating. The zeroth order transmission refers to light that goes straight through the grating without undergoing diffraction (which should be ...