The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on ...

The effects of a proposed green-energy facility in Chile could be devastating for some of the most powerful instruments ...

New optical technologies have revolutionized astronomy, from the invention of the telescope 400 years ago to more recent developments of adaptive optics and segmented mirrors. The next disruptive ...

The Extremely Large Telescope will revolutionize our view of the cosmos when it sees first light in Chile in 2028. In fact, ...

Over the past few years or so the most talked about kind of telescope was the one that is meant to operate in space. An ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to directly capture images of the planets in the star system HR 8799, which ...

The project in the Atacama Desert could increase light pollution by up to 50%, making it much harder to observe the cosmos ...

Early simulations show that it would take only 10 hours for the forthcoming ELT to find signs of life near Proxima Centauri.

An in-depth technical analysis by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has evaluated the impact of the INNA megaproject on ...

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