The world's most powerful telescope may live in Chile, but parts of the project will call Texas home.

NASA is advancing its planetary defense capabilities with the planned 2027 launch of the NEO Surveyor, the agency’s first infrared space telescope dedicated to detecting hazardous asteroids and comets ...

NASA's Roman Space Telescope is launch-ready ahead of schedule, set to survey the infrared universe with a field of view 100 ...

NASA is taking a bold step to safeguard Earth from cosmic threats with its NEO Surveyor mission. The near-Earth object (NEO) ...

Plans are underway to add a seventh movable telescope to Georgia State University’s Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy— known as the CHARA Array—that would increase the resolution, or the ...

Astronomers now have a powerful new tool to uncover the faintest traces of exoplanets, galactic structures, variable stars, and fleeting cosmic events beyond our solar system. The Prime-focus Infrared ...

Next week, the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center will be unveiling its newest space telescope: the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The Roman telescope was originally called the Wide Field Infrared ...

Over the past few years or so the most talked about kind of telescope was the one that is meant to operate in space. An understandable development, given the several such instruments that have been ...

New Mexico’s Plains of San Agustin are otherworldly: Silence, sand and sharp plants reign on the valley floor. Knobbly volcanic rock rises above. Pronghorns’ legs and jackrabbits’ ears break up the ...