South Africa's Karoo region is a vast semi-arid area that stretches across four of the country's provinces. It is sparsely ...

In the heart of this landscape, near the small Northern Cape town of Carnarvon, the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory ...

Analysis - South Africa's Karoo region is a vast semi-arid area that stretches across four of the country's provinces. It is ...

Now 25 years old, scientists involved with the telescope believe it can last another decade. But the president's budget for next year sliced almost $1 billion from NASA's funding request, a roughly 12 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered the cause of the most powerful cosmic explosion since the Big Bang. The explosion (nicknamed the BOAT or "brightest of all time") is a gamma-ray burst ...

The new digital telescope is likely to be located in the Canary Islands near the University of Warwick observing facilities on La Palma An astronomy project has been awarded £3m to develop a ...

Now 25 years old, scientists involved with the telescope believe it can last another decade. But the president's budget for next year sliced almost $1 billion from NASA's funding request ...

Work to decommission a pair of Maunakea telescopes will resume this month. Work began on disassembling the Caltech facility last year. The observatory’s 34-foot-diameter telescope and primary ...

An astronomy project has been awarded £3m to develop a telescope with the aim of detecting the explosions of stars and merging of black holes in real time. Led by Prof Don Pollacco at the ...

All of us with the slightest bit of knowledge about what's going on in the world around us knows that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is floating in space at a distance of one million miles ...

If the James Webb telescope was 10 times more powerful, could we see the beginning of time? – Sam H., age 12, Prosper, Texas This illustration of the front view of the James Webb Space Telescope ...