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 ...

Scientists may have found a planet orbiting two brown dwarfs at a wild 90-degree tilt—something never seen before.

The chance that our Milky Way Galaxy will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy may not be as certain as previously thought, ...

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

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

The thousands of photomultipliers within the telescope amplify the feeble Cherenkov light and turn it into an electrical signal. Astronomers can then follow the path of the muon and its shower ...

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 James Webb telescope captured mysterious light on Jupiter that has left astronomers puzzled — nothing like it has ever been seen before. On Earth, we ...

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 ...