When it comes to telescope mirrors, larger is generally better. The larger your main mirror, the more light you can capture ...

The world's largest telescope continues to take shape on the Cerro Armazones mountain in Chile's Atacama Desert.

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...

TNO is excited to provide cutting edge adaptive optics technology to improve the vision of the world-class Keck Observatory.

Explore the James Webb Space Telescope's incredible discovery: a cosmic alignment revealing the teenage years of our Milky ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals ...

Evidence suggests ancient civilizations, including the Greeks, may have had early optical knowledge and devices like ...

The Webb telescope is well-suited to identify asteroid 2024 YR4's size. Webb views a type of light we can't see with the ...

"The operations work at STScI, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and other NASA contractors is funded by the operational ...

On the Webb telescope, 18 hexagonal mirrors combine to form a massive primary mirror that is 21 feet (6.5 meters) across. The ...

There’s really no reason you can’t use binoculars to look into space – and in fact astronomers have been working on doing so ...