Perhaps the weirdest-looking Boeing 747 on this list is the YAL-1. Rather than being acquired from an airline, YAL-1 was ...

NASA came on board in 1971 through a cost-sharing agreement with NSF, allowing for the dish reflector to be ... meter Aperture Spherical Telescope's (FAST) giant dish. That dish — the size ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is tested in a giant cryogenic chamber at Johnson ... The Subaru’s 8.2-meter (27 feet) reflector is among the largest single-piece mirrors in the world.

It doesn’t seem possible that with so many Lilliputians of humanity on the face of the globe, this giant has been removed ... of the 200-inch telescopic reflector is the most important ...

Giant ground-based reflector telescopes do much of astronomy's heavy lifting, although the U.S.'s largest in Hawaii is not ...

Just to make it that little bit more challenging, there's also three different main types of telescopes to look out for. You have the choice of refractor, reflector and catadioptric telescopes ...

The Roman Space Telescope is nearing completion with its recent integration into the launch spacecraft. This sets the stage ...

Video of the largest photomosaic ever assembled from Hubble Space Telescope observations. The camera pans along the Andromeda Galaxy's vast disk which is over 200,000 light-years across. (Credit: ...

Astronomers have captured the most detailed infrared images yet of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), using the Large ...

The Roman Space Telescope, described most often in one giant leap in the latest history of space exploration, marked an important milestone for NASA by promising to redefine the boundaries of our ...

Giant mirror: Webb's mirror, which captures light, is over 21 feet across. That's over two-and-a-half times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope's mirror. Capturing more light allows Webb to see ...