The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of ...

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 ...

For the first time, a flat telescope lens has been produced that represents colors accurately, offering a way to make less bulky lenses that could be sent into space cheaply. The first telescopes ...

What are you, SIMP 0136? Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to peer into this object flying by itself through our Milky Way galaxy. It's rapidly spinning, and at some 13 ...

Menon’s solution is focused on larger-scale lenses used in telescopes and astrophotography, ensuring flat lenses can match the color preservation and light-focusing capabilities of curved ones. By ...

A modest NASA space telescope with grand ambitions is scheduled to soon launch into an orbit around Earth. The megaphone-shaped spacecraft, called SPHEREx — short for Spectro-Photometer for the ...

Questions that have long eluded astronomers could finally be answered with the launch of an advanced space telescope NASA has spent years developing. Once in orbit, the instrument known as SPHEREx ...

After discovering this curious world in 2020, scientists have now used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to peer into the exoplanet's atmosphere and better grasp how such a world works.

Groundbreaking flat lens enables telescopes to capture color and detect light from distant stars. Credit: LSST / CC BY 4.0 Engineers have created an innovative flat lens that enhances telescopes’ ...

Telescopes have multiple moving parts, finding celestial bodies is harder than it sounds, and some of the most advanced features can just get in the way if you’re simply hoping for a better look ...

As the hunt for dark matter, the universe's most common yet most mysterious "stuff," continues, scientists are understandably eager to get the most powerful space telescope in on the action.

New research from University of Utah engineering professor Rajesh Menon and colleagues at the Price College of Engineering offers a promising solution applicable to telescopes and astrophotography ...