Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on ...

Satellites connect people around the world but they also interfere with astronomers’ views of the cosmos. There are ways to ...

Astronomers at the University of Michigan have discovered a new satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), the Milky Way's ...

SpaceX and other companies plan to launch tens of thousands of satellites, which could mar astronomical observations and pollute the atmosphere.

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...

(260 kilograms) and is, according to Sky & Telescope magazine ... laid down to reach far-flung places, satellite internet works by beaming information through the vacuum of space, where it ...

Inouye Solar Telescope (left) towers over the domes ... Wainscoat said. When a satellite passes through the area, it “will make a streak through our field of view and ruin anything under the ...

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in partnership with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), has developed ...

Even if a wavelength makes it through to the ground, terrestrial telescopes also have to contend ... Some are in orbit; some take the form of massive satellite dishes, lined up in rows on the ...

The first total lunar eclipse in more than two years lit up the sky last night as humanity, forever fascinated with the Earth ...

Well, any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same, for the two principal types in use today were developed by giants: the refractor by Galileo and the reflector by Newton.

and worked on satellite and rocket experiments, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Join us for a monthly evening under that stars, hosted by our students and faculty. Visitors can tour the ...