Imagine a space telescope with a mirror stretching 50 meters across! That's larger than the width of a U.K. soccer field and ...

The world's most powerful telescopes, including the James Webb Space Telescope and FAST, are revolutionizing our ...

Its two telescopes, the 11.5-foot (3.5 meters) New Technology Telescope (NTT) and the 11.8-foot (3.6 m) telescope both use ultraprecise mirrors to bounce images back from space for analysis.

A unique new material that shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled could help enable the ultra-stable space ...

L3Harris in Rochester played a pivotal role in building the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s massive secondary mirror.

In just over 10 hours of test observations, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory captured millions of celestial objects, opening the ...

Both cameras are far more sensitive than the standard cameras used on Earth. NIRCam and MIRI can detect the tiniest amounts ...

Because it shrinks when other materials expand, Allvar Alloy 30 can be used to strategically compensate for the expansion and ...

The Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey (Ariel) telescope is to launch in 2029 and spend years ...

Scenes of nebulas in the Milky Way, a cluster of galaxies and thousands of new asteroids are a teaser of how the U.S.-funded ...

Texas astronomers are part of the effort to construct the Giant Magellan Telescope – an effort that will bring a new level of ...

The Vera C Rubin observatory, home to the world's most powerful digital camera, promises to transform our understanding of ...