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The successor to the famed Hubble Space Telescope, Webb will now launch between March and June 2019 from French Guiana

NASA delays launch of James Webb Space Telescope to 2019

The 6.5-metre diameter infrared-optimised telescope is designed to study an extremely wide range of astrophysical...

30 Sept 2017 9:14 AM IST

The discovery will involve findings from the Hubble Space Telescope and NASAs Cassini spacecraft, which is orbiting Saturn.

NASA telescopes provide 3D journey through Orion Nebula

Using images and other data from NASA telescopes, researchers created a detailed multi-wavelength visualisation of the...

15 Jan 2018 1:59 PM IST

The MeerKAT would be the worlds biggest and most powerful radio telescope. (Representational pic: Solar system, Photo : Pixabay)

MeerKAT radio telescope to help unlock mysteries of universe

Built at a cost of 4.4 billion rand, MeerKAT will be incorporated into the complex Square Kilometre Array (SKA)...

14 July 2018 9:12 AM IST

Researchers are surveying the sky around massive galaxy clusters that are the right size and distance away to focus light from very distant galaxies

39 massive new galaxies discovered by researchers

The astronomers discovered these galaxies by combining results obtained from various telescopes around the world.

12 Aug 2019 4:36 PM IST

Webb will orbit the sun at a point about 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometres) from Earth unreachable in case of a breakdown. (Photo: NASA)

James Webb space telescope launch delayed to 2020

NASA says that more time is needed to assemble and test the James Webb Space Telescope.

28 March 2018 8:59 AM IST

This 2015 artists rendering provided by Northrop Grumman via NASA shows the James Webb Space Telescope. On Wednesday, June 27, 2018, NASA announced that the next-generation telescope will now fly no earlier than 2021 and its lifetime cost is now expected to reach nearly $10 billion. (Photo:AP)

More delay, a cost for NASA's next-generation space telescope

For the third time in less than a year, the space agency announced a lengthy postponement for the James Webb Space...

28 Jun 2018 8:23 AM IST

The issue has been running for last three years. (Image Source: Pixabay)

Giant telescope project before Hawaii Supreme Court again

This is the second appeal before the high court involving the 30-meter telescope.

23 Jun 2018 10:59 AM IST

Inauguration of GOTO - credit Antonio Gonz¡lez / IAC

Launch of telescope for detecting optical signals from gravitational...

New telescope for detecting optical signatures of gravitational waves officially launched in La Palma.

5 July 2017 11:24 AM IST

Giant telescope in Chile to seek habitable planets in Alpha Centauri

The ESO said it has signed a deal with Breakthrough Starshot.

11 Jan 2017 8:26 AM IST

The discovery will involve findings from the Hubble Space Telescope and NASAs Cassini spacecraft, which is orbiting Saturn.

NASA to observe asteroid flyby to test planetary defense tech

Scientists are certain it will come no closer than 6,800 kilometres from the surface of Earth.

31 July 2017 8:57 AM IST

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TV sets in the cosmos?

In science the tradition has been to advance physical theories and check their predictions against a suitable test.

14 April 2017 3:22 AM IST

An illustration of the thick ring of dust that can obscure the energetic processes that occur near active black hole. (Photo: NASA)

Reseachers find cool dust around active black holes

Most, if not all, large galaxies contain a supermassive black hole at their centers.

14 Jun 2017 3:53 PM IST