It's been about 30 years since NASA astronauts saved the Hubble Space Telescope on an immensely daring mission. At the time, it was perhaps the most daring mission scientists had conceived of.. In ...

It's not off to the scrapyard quite yet for the historic aircraft that carried NASA's flying telescope. On Sept. 29, NASA and the German Space Agency (DLR) retired their joint Stratospheric ...

Figure 1: A schematic diagram showing how researchers can study radiation from the early universe using an infrared reflective filter with a moth eye structure created by a pulsed laser process.

Students at the University of Arizona are trying to help astronomers as reflective satellites continue to fill our night skies. These students completed on the first comprehensive peer-reviewed ...

As satellites crawl across the sky, they reflect light from the sun back down to Earth, especially during the first few hours after sunset and the first few hours before sunrise. As more companies ...

India’s first liquid mirror telescope is up and running. It’s the first and largest liquid mercury telescope to be built at a high altitude, and if that isn’t impressive enough, it is also the first ...

LASER COMPONENTS has developed highly reflective dielectric mirrors that enable optical telescopes to detect less luminous celestial bodies. The optics cover a wavelength range from 390 nm to 950 nm, ...

GREENBELT, Md. – Scientists working at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., have concocted an innovative recipe for giant telescope mirrors on the Moon. To make a mirror that dwarfs ...

One Maunakea telescope has been partially removed, but the building that housed it will remain standing until next year. After months of delays, workers began taking apart CSO’s telescope in June, and ...

The astronomical community faces a significant and escalating challenge due to the dramatic increase in satellite launches, transitioning from minimal interference by early constellations like Iridium ...