NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

In a groundbreaking development, NASA has announced a new alloy that could be the key to unlocking ultra-stable space ...

A new material called Alloy 30 shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled and it could help with telescope ...

James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...

Because it shrinks when other materials expand, Allvar Alloy 30 can be used to strategically compensate for the expansion and contraction of other materials. The alloy’s unique NTE property and lack ...

When the search for habitable exoplanets requires a 1,000 times more stable telescope than James Webb Space Telescope, even ...

Almost a thousand of the world’s top space scientists will visit Durham University next week (7 to 11 July) as we host the UK’s National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) 2025. NAM is the flagship annual event ...

NASA is getting closer to building the powerful telescopes needed to find Earth-like planets beyond our solar system, thanks ...

Readers doubtless know that metals expand when heated. As explained in a NASA blog post that’s a problem for space telescopes because if their components warm and expand it can mean that the shape of ...