Imagine a space telescope with a mirror stretching 50 meters across! That's larger than the width of a U.K. soccer field and ...

A backside view of the International Liquid Mirror Telescope mirror (rotating over the air bearing, which is covered with a plexiglass box on the base) with yellow safety pillars. The mercury ...

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

Back to Article List Unique liquid-mirror telescope comes online in India Instead of a glass mirror, this telescope uses a spinning pan of liquid mercury.

The James Webb Space Telescope has just unveiled the clearest image ever captured of Proxima B, a potentially habitable ...

Called the Fluidic Telescope (FLUTE) project, the team suggests creating liquid mirrors 164 feet (50 meters) in diameter — nearly eight times the size of the mirror on JWST.

Story at a glance (NewsNation) — Data from the James Webb telescope has suggested there is liquid water on an exoplanet that could be a super-Earth ice planet. Known as LHS 1140 b, the exoplanet ...

[Hank Green] posted an interesting video about the first liquid mirror telescope from back in the 1850s. At the time, scientists were not impressed. But, these days, people are revisiting the idea ...

The Fluidic Telescope (FLUTE) could make concerns about the size of mirrors obsolete, also has the ability to heal itself.

[Hank Green] posted an interesting video about the first liquid mirror telescope from back in the 1850s. At the time, scientists were not impressed. But, these days, people are revisiting the idea.… ...

(NewsNation) — Data from the James Webb telescope has suggested there is liquid water on an exoplanet that could be a super-Earth ice planet.

Story at a glance (NewsNation) — Data from the James Webb telescope has suggested there is liquid water on an exoplanet that could be a super-Earth ice planet. Known as LHS 1140 b, the exoplanet ...