After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA’s US$10 ...
Sydney scientists fixed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope without ever leaving Earth. Using AI-powered software called AMIGO, ...
The Hubble Space Telescope was originally expected to last about 15 years in orbit, before its optical surfaces became too ...
Kathryn Thornton, a renowned astronaut and physicist, recounts the groundbreaking journey of the first servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope in 1993. Her talk dives into the critical ...
"After a 20-year struggle to place a large, sophisticated optical telescope in orbit the Hubble Space Telescope was finally launched in 1990, though its primary mirror was soon found to be flawed. A ...
A small piece of metal engineered in Australia helped sharpen the James Webb telescope's vision from a million miles away.