Astronomers had long suspected that certain quasars—those brilliant, otherworldly light sources fueled by supermassive black ...

Not only are they supermassive black holes, but they crate a unique "wagging tail" of super-charged particles.

The James Webb Space Telescope's AMI, designed by Peter Tuthill, enhances image resolution by correcting optical blurs.

It was put on Webb to diagnose and measure any blur in its images. Even nanometres of distortion in Webb’s 18 hexagonal ...

Astronomers detected a bright signal, coming from deep inside a dust disc, that is likely newborn planet HD 135344B still ...

Scientists have long been aware of the massive elliptical galaxy, M87. The galaxy was first observed in the late 18th century ...

A team of astronomers from the U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO), Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have successfully used the ultra high-resolution capability of ...

Today, April 11, 2006, The Planetary Society dedicated a new optical telescope at an observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts — one designed solely to search for light ...

Upon arrival at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, the Optical Telescope Assembly for the agency's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was lifted out of the shipping fixture and placed with other ...

Astronomers get to ask some of the most fundamental questions there are, ranging from whether we’re alone in the cosmos to what the nature of the mysterious dark energy and dark matter making up most ...

Vaonis has just released a limited-edition run of their Vespera II smart telescopes with a stylish clear housing and a ...

Optical aberration theory remains a fundamental component in the design and operation of space telescopes. With increasingly ambitious astronomical missions and the demand for high-resolution imaging, ...