Engineers and scientists of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), led by Oliver Krause, developed crucial optical elements for the Coronagraph Instrument (CGI) of the Roman Space Telescope ...

A new telescope technology—measuring just 6 millimeters (0.24 inches) in diameter—could improve how future space missions ...

Finding life beyond our solar system is a major goal of modern astronomy. NASA's planned Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) ...

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 ...

The most advanced optical spectrograph in the world begins a two-week journey today from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where it was built, to the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, where it ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 – Future telescopes, with mirrors half the size of a football field, will need special components to deal with the light they collect. Astronomers are turning to photonic devices ...

Finding life beyond our solar system is a major goal of modern astronomy. NASA's planned Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) aims to take direct ...

A tiny optical component captures multiple polarization images at once, helping telescopes track solar magnetic fields with ...

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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.

Einstein Probe X-ray transient EP260623a was detected 6.8 billion light-years away in Pegasus on June 23, 2026, triggering a ...