A team of researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope found the source of energy heating the gas clouds around a black ...

Using a newly developed adaptive optics system called Cona, scientists peered through Earth's turbulent air to reveal the sun ...

Also the secondary mirror in mirror-telescopes creates a large obstruction in the light path, and furthermore, the supports that hold this secondary mirror cause diffraction and bending of the ...

Scientists have discovered a colossal object approximately 435 miles wide in the frigid outer reaches of our solar system, ...

NASA's James Webb telescope captured mysterious light on Jupiter that has left astronomers puzzled — nothing like it has ever ...

The remote-imaging system (left) shoots eight infrared laser beams (red line added to show the path) at a target (right) in a ...

NASA's Hubble captures a Galactic collision similar to what has been predicted with the Milky Way Galaxy four billion years from now.

is the new centerpiece of the telescope's scientific instrument suite. The VTF has successfully connected to the Inouye's light path, and following proper alignment and calibration, has achieved ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope offers sharper images, efficient light use, and the ability to find Earth-like planets.

A telescope is a device used to observe objects ... Shaping a lens allowed for fine control over the path of the light that enters the lens, concentrating it or spreading it out, which in turn ...

Inouye Solar Telescope ... an intersecting path, they can interact with each other to either cancel each other out, or they can reinforce each other,” Woeger said. “Light waves ‘trapped ...

Sir William Herschel’s telescope was a reflecting design with a large primary mirror and an eyepiece positioned off-axis to avoid obstructing the light path. This allowed for larger mirrors and ...