NASA has delayed the final shuttle flight to overhaul the Hubble Space Telescope.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 7 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists, searching for signs of life from faraway planets, are building hundreds of radio telescopes in Northern California, their leader says.
The World Wide Telescope (WWT) website will change the way people see the heavens when it launches in the coming weeks.
(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. launched its WorldWide Telescope late Monday, bringing the free Web-based program for zooming around the universe to a broad audience.
WorldWide Telescope allows viewers to focus on a particular planet or cluster of stars. One astronomer say it offers 'almost a cinematic representation' of the heavens. ...
... a worldwide survey unprecedented in rigor and detail of astronomical sites for the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT), the TMT Observatory Corporation board of directors has selected two outstanding sites, ...
... key to understanding how galaxy clusters form and evolve.
The primary reason for upgrading the telescope's camera is to determine the color of these stars, according to Mihos and Harding. "Typically ...
A shuttle mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope is now set for Oct. 8, giving NASA one final chance to fix the 18-year-old telescope before it is retired.
... the Red Planet's atmosphere toward its landing on May 25, its progress will be scrutinized by radio telescopes from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). At NRAO control rooms in Green ...
A set of 29 Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images of an exotic type of active galaxy known as a "post-starburst quasar" show that interactions and mergers drive both galaxy evolution and the growth of ...
... the mirror blank with a small amount of aluminum, and voilà, we had a highly reflective telescope mirror," says Rabin. "Our method could be scaled-up on the moon, using the ubiquitous lunar dust, to ...
WASHINGTON, June 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says more than 800,000 images taken by its Spitzer Space Telescope have been used to create a portrait of Milky Way galaxy stars.
... gamma-ray detectors. If all goes as planned, GLAST--for Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope--will within months begin to send back detailed, real-time data on the most energetic explosions and flare ...
Scientists working at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have concocted an innovative recipe for giant telescope mirrors on the Moon. To make a mirror that dwarfs anything on Earth, just take a little ...
The Gamma-ray Large Area Telescope (GLAST) is finally "go" for launch after many delays.
