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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, seen here above the Earth during the last servicing mission in 2009. Credit: NASA

Hubble on the Bubble: Can NASA fix the world’s most famous telescope?

By Phil Plait 4 months ago

hot jupiter

A new, private orbital space telescope preparing to help ramp up search for habitable planets

By Jeff Spry 5 months ago

spherex

NASA's new 3D mapping space telescope 'SPHEREx' enters final design stage

By Jeff Spry 10 months ago

A still from the video of the Arecibo radio telescope collapse shows the massive 900-ton platform swinging down after supporting cables snapped. Credit: Courtesy of the Arecibo Observatory, a U.S. National Science Foundation facility

Watch footage of the devastating collapse of the Arecibo observatory telescope

By Phil Plait 12 months ago

NASA image of the first stars

Gargantuan lunar telescope could show us when the universe first got lit 13 billion years ago

By Elizabeth Rayne 1 year ago

On 10 August 2020 an auxiliary cable broke, damaging some Arecibo radio dish panels. Credit: UCF

UPDATED: The giant Arecibo radio telescope to be decommissioned due to damage

By Phil Plait 1 year ago

Fanciful artwork depicting starlight being focused by Earth’s atmosphere onto a camera as part of the Terrascope. Credit: James Tuttle Keane / David Kipping

Terrascope: The Whole Earth Telescope

By Phil Plait 1 year ago

NASA space balloon

NASA’s space balloon will float a telescope up there to spy on the secret lives of stars

By Elizabeth Rayne 1 year ago

Cosmos hero

Even Superman's X-ray vision can't capture images like this six-month, all-sky shot of the cosmos

By Jeff Spry 1 year ago

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Australia's powerful new infrared telescope to hunt for elusive cosmic events

By Jeff Spry 1 year ago