When people think about telescopes, they generally imagine those giant buildings perched on top of some mountain here on Earth, or some piece of hardware floating around in close Earth orbit. But ...

Reliably guiding and capturing optical waves is central to the functioning of various contemporary technologies, including communication and information processing systems. The most conventional ...

An astronomer has captured an image of the James Webb Space Telescope after it reached its destination almost 1 million miles away from Earth. Webb is currently located at what's known as the second ...

A trio of space missions just launched, set to deepen our understanding of the sun's influence and protect Earth from the ...

Earth just picked up a hitchhiker. Astronomers recently determined that the asteroid 2020 XL 5, discovered in 2020, wasn't just passing by like so many of its kin but actually residing at one of the ...

“PAC does not overlap with other areas of interest to human activity. PAC is the only area of the far side that will never be reached by the radiation emitted by future space bases located at the L4 ...

Physicists have discovered a tiny asteroid, about one kilometer wide, that is locked into the same orbit as Earth—only the second such cosmic body of its type that has been identified to date. And now ...