NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has released four stunning images of cosmic wonders, depicted in red, white and blue for the ...

Peking University wants to build the largest optical telescope in Asia and close the gap in astronomy capabilities with the rest of the world. The project aims to create an initial telescope with an ...

Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We'll let other publications offer you ...

A research team from the University of Tokyo/Kavli IPMU, Ehime University, and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has succeeded in conducting the first, full-scale scientific ...

A rocket will drop from the plane, then ascend to deliver a spacecraft called LINK to low-Earth orbit. LINK’s mission is to ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances discusses diffraction-limited visible imaging for large aperture telescopes. The deformable mirror used in adaptive optics can change its surface to ...

Today, April 11, 2006, The Planetary Society dedicated a new optical telescope at an observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts — one designed solely to search for light ...

Astronomers get to ask some of the most fundamental questions there are, ranging from whether we’re alone in the cosmos to what the nature of the mysterious dark energy and dark matter making up most ...

If you own a DSLR camera, you can simply buy more lenses as your needs dictate, instead of having to buy a whole new camera each time. The Sevunscope is intended to bring that same sort of ...

China plans to build a general-purpose optical telescope with the greatest aperture in Asia as soon as possible between 2024 and 2030 to compete with other nations' optical astronomical telescopes.

Optical telescopes have come a long way in the past two-and-a-half centuries — from homemade telescope of William Herschel to ...