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

Radio telescopes are one of the more high-profile pieces of scientific apparatus. There is an excitement to stories of radio astronomers of old probing the mysteries of the Universe on winter ...

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Explore these orbiting pioneers and learn what they've discovered. 3 min read The Hubble Space Telescope was designed to free astronomers of a limitation that has plagued them since the days of ...

NASA is ready to launch a space telescope to see the universe in a whole new way. The agency’s Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer ...