Scientists have developed an impossibly thin telescope lens that addresses a key astronomical challenge in a new study funded ...

As the clocks go forward this weekend, the FT’s senior graphics artist walks a fine (meridian) line through the birthplace of ...

Here's how an innovative flat lens could solve these problems for satellites and space-based telescopes. Understanding ...

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

Explore the evolution of a groundbreaking scientific instrument that has redefined our understanding of the cosmos – from its inception in 1608 to the cutting-edge gamma-ray telescopes of today.

NASA’s two-for-one launch of its newest space telescope, SPHEREx — designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way — alongside a sun-focused mission called PUNCH is facing ...

Reflecting telescopes generally take longer than refractors (lens-based scopes) to adjust to temperature change, and it would often take a half hour or more of acclimation for the scope to achieve ...

Stunning new imagery and other data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal new details about a pair of enigmatic infrared ring structures accompanying a distant planetary nebula. The new ...

Chinese scientists are working to set up the world's largest refracting telescope in Tibet Autonomous Region for observing stars and planets. Deputy Director of the regional department of science and ...

According to NASA, the SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) space telescope is headed on a two-year-long mission that includes the ...

The first telescopes used lenses, known as refracting telescopes ... "Once we optimized the design of the lens' microstructures, the manufacturing process involved required very stringent process ...