The National Science Foundation's decision to cut funds for the Thirty Meter Telescope planned for Maunakea on Hawaiʻi Island ...

The gravity of the Sun bends the path of light, and we can take advantage of that to turn it into the world’s most powerful ...

A funky effect Einstein predicted, known as gravitational lensing — when a foreground galaxy magnifies more distant galaxies ...

Is your head spinning as much as mine when it comes to new technology lately? It’s hard to keep up with it all, but you want ...

The game-changing Vera C. Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured this stunning image of a galaxy cluster so massive that it serves a gravitational lens, warping the light and revealing more distant galaxies from the early ...

With the ability to scan the entire southern night sky every three days, the huge Vera C. Rubin Observatory could be about to ...

In recent years, the world of optics has undergone a major shift. New research shows how light can be bent, focused, and even ...

The Flyeye is a network of four telescopes planned by the European Space Agency (ESA) to detect dangerous near-Earth objects.

Is your head spinning as much as mine when it comes to new technology lately? It’s truly hard to keep up with it all, but you ...

A detail of the moon photographed using a Celestron telescope. A young girl peers ... collecting any and all things optical—spectacle lenses, old broken binoculars lenses, cameras,” says ...

Ultralight, large aperture transmissive lenses for space telescopes which consists of multi-order diffractive engineered (MODE) surface lenses have high aspect ratio, low stray light and can be ...