The Subaru Telescope’s new Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) now carries the name ʻŌnohiʻula, following a naming ceremony Nov.

The James Webb Space Telescope has snapped its first in-focus image. The milestone comes after the mission team spent the last few weeks aligning its mirrors, and the telescope is now set to meet or ...

A "selfie" taken by the James Webb Space telescope during the early stages of calibration process. NASA SHARE Focusing a six-ton, $10 billion space telescope isn’t as simple as turning the focus ring ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Is there life on planets outside our solar system? How did stars and galaxies form in the earliest years of the universe? How do black holes shape galaxies? Scientists are expected to ...

(Reuters) - NASA on Wednesday embarked on a months-long, painstaking process of bringing its newly launched James Webb Space Telescope into focus, a task due for completion in time for the ...

After weeks of microscopic adjustments, NASA unveiled the first fully focused image from the James Webb Space Telescope Wednesday, a razor-sharp engineering photo of a nondescript star in a field of ...

The earliest of the large telescopes, such as the twin 10-meter Keck telescopes in Hawaii, gathered the glory. The two Kecks achieved first light in 1993 and 1996. By 2000, astronomers using Keck ...

The Webb telescope has completed the third stage in aligning its mirrors, a crucial process for getting state-of-the-art imagery out of this $10 billion space telescope. The feat comes right on time ...

Of all the mysteries that the massive James Webb Space Telescope has seen so far in the early universe, one of the strangest are objects that astronomers now call "little red dots." Like the nickname ...

Today, NASA announced that it has successfully completed two further steps to align the mirrors of the Webb telescope. The resulting performance indicates that Webb will meet or exceed its design ...

Is there life on planets outside our solar system? How did stars and galaxies form in the earliest years of the universe? How do black holes shape galaxies? Scientists are expected to explore those ...