Telescopes
The Next Generation of Telescopes Will Tell Us About the Weather on Other Worlds
A study shows how next-generation Extremely Large Telescopes are going to let astronomers get a glimpse of what's going on…
A New Membrane Could Lead to Space Telescopes with Flexible Mirrors!
A team from the Max Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) has developed a technique for creating thin, flexible mirrors…
Researchers Build a Telescope with a Flat Lens
The picture of the Moon in the banner might not look all that spectacular, but it is absolutely astounding from…
If an Earthlike Planet is Within 30 Light-Years, This Space Telescope Will Find it
There has long been a limiting factor in the development of space-based telescopes - launch fairings. These capsules essentially limit…
A Green Bank Telescope Prototype Radar System Can Image the Moon in High-Resolution and Detect Asteroids
Everyone loves taking pictures of the Moon. Whether it’s with their phones or through the wonders of astrophotography, photographing the…
Future Space Telescopes Could be 100 Meters Across, Constructed in Space, and Then Bent Into a Precise Shape
An MIT team proposes a new method for in-space assembly to built a self-adjusting 100 m (328 ft) space telescope
It’s Already Hard Enough to Block a Single Star’s Light to See its Planets. But Binary Stars? Yikes
Detecting exoplanets was frontier science not long ago. But now we've found over 5,000 of them, and we expect to…
Subaru Telescope can now Analyze 2,400 Galaxies Simultaneously
First light is an exciting time for astronomers and engineers who help bring new telescopes up to speed. One of…
A New Instrument Gives the Very Large Telescope an Even Sharper View of the Cosmos
The Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Cerro Paranal in northern Chile, is undoubtedly one of the premier ground-based observatories. But…
Three New Potentially Hazardous Asteroids Discovered, Including a big one That Measures 1.5 km Across
An asteroid 1.5 km across is no joke. Even a much smaller one, about the size of a house, can…