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 ...

Here's how an innovative flat lens could solve these problems for satellites and space-based telescopes. Understanding ...

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 ...

The site was chosen for its altitude, placing the telescope above as much atmospheric disturbance as possible. The air has a ...

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

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

The Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR) telescope has been imagined as a habitable planet hunter, but it could be so much ...

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 (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky ...