Mock observations test the performance of the Chinese Space Station Telescope as the 2-meter-class observatory moves closer ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope snapped its sharpest image of the area around a black hole, solving a long-standing galactic ...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, recently announced that they would finance, out of their own pocket, a ...

University of Chicago astronomy and astrophysics professor Donald G. York​, who is credited with pioneering contributions to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured infrared light from a black hole and gave scientists unprecedented insights into the object's structure.

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at the booming space industry, better space weather forecasts, the first ...

The Hubble Space Telescope, one of the most productive scientific observatories ever launched, is in a gradual but inevitable ...

By studying how light from eight distant quasars is gravitationally lensed as it propagates towards Earth, astronomers have ...

Chinese satellite will be used for national land surveys, urban planning, environmental management and comprehensive disaster ...