American space agency NASA launched the Pandora telescope that will use a new approach to look at distant exoplanets in ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

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Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

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After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A ...

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"We're going to do it in three years, and we're going to do it for a ridiculously low price," Pete Klupar, executive director ...

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Rochester Institute of Technology astrophysicist Jeyhan Kartaltepe will be one of the first scientists to use NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope soon after it launches in spring 2019. The Webb ...

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