The smallest magnetic loops ever seen in the sun's corona — imaged for the first time by the National Science Foundation's Daniel F. Inouye Solar Telescope — could be the bottom floor of the machinery ...

The Sun, an ever-burning ball of gas at the center of our solar system, has always fascinated people. But now, scientists are seeing it like never before. Thanks to the most powerful solar telescope ...

The most powerful telescope ever built has finally reached its destination in space. NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) one month ago from French Guiana. The telescope is about the ...

The world’s largest and most powerful space telescope rocketed away Saturday on a high-stakes quest to behold light from the first stars and galaxies and scour the universe for hints of life.

The JWST's MIRI detected a flare in Sagittarius A*, revealing for the first time in mid-infrared how an explosion occurs near ...

The telescope's outer barrel and solar panels were subjected to a powerful acoustic blast reaching 138 decibels, louder than ...

India and Japan are jointly building the world's largest and most powerful optical telescope. Its 30-meter wide mirror has ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Set to launch in 2018, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will be the largest and most powerful ever built. It will be the successor to the Hubble telescope and will look ...

There has to be recognizable life out there, somewhere close enough we can find it. That's the idea behind SETI, and also the huge new alien-hunting Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope ...