In the next few years, we will see some incredible observatories comie online. The Vera Rubin Observatory's science campaign ...

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 ...

Radio telescopes let you study the universe by collecting faint radio waves from distant objects. To see extremely small ...

NASA is building optical communications technologies into its networks, using infrared laser links to offer missions higher data rates than comparable radio frequency systems. NASA’s Low-Cost Optical ...

Cameras may soon see without lenses, and the change could be as profound as the leap from film to digital. A new imaging technology developed at the University of Connecticut promises to rewrite the ...

NASA selects two Colorado companies to develop technology used on its next space telescope, which will search for life on ...

Astronomy has always relied on optical instruments, from the early Galilean telescope to fiber-fed spectrographs, so much so that astronomy and modern optics are called astrophotonics. Since ...

A new lens-free imaging system uses software to see finer details from farther away than optical systems ever could before.

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is one giant step closer to unlocking the mysteries of the universe. The mission has now received its final major delivery: the Optical Telescope Assembly, ...

New astronomical facilities, such as the under-construction Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and planned 30-meter-class telescopes, and new instrumentation on existing optical and infrared (OIR) ...

World’s largest optical mirror successfully installed on support system prototype for the first time to validate telescope’s extraordinary performance. Installation of one of GMT’s 8.4-m-diameter ...