A 40-meter-diameter radio telescope is put into use on Friday in Shigatse, Xizang autonomous region. Built by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory under the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

After taking the first images of black holes, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is poised to reveal how black holes launch ...

With modern electronics, it is relatively easy to build your own radio telescope. To understand how it can be done, check out ...

The James Webb Space Telescope was launched exactly a year ... space agencies held a party in July to release the first colour images. What you see on this page are some of the pictures ...

This required new software for the telescope's fine guidance sensor. Engineers also found some stray light was polluting pictures when the observatory was pointed in a certain way. But with these ...