Over the past few years or so the most talked about kind of telescope was the one that is meant to operate in space. An ...

Satellites are increasingly a global-communications lifeline, allowing people in remote areas, even war zones, to make phone ...

Perhaps most impressively, this image resolves individual stars within the galaxy—a nearly impossible feat for most Earth-based telescopes. For those who want a closer look, McCarthy offers a ...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky Way than any ground-based telescope before it. It's difficult to ...

"Our demonstration is a stepping stone towards creating very large aperture, lightweight flat lenses with the capability of capturing full-color images for use in air- and space-based telescopes ...

The researchers used data from the Hawaii island-based Gemini Telescope and Chile-based Very Large Telescope to confirm the presence of the four planets around Barnard’s star. A study published ...