Over the quarter century I’ve been writing this column, I've been flabbergasted by the advances in telescopes for backyard ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is one giant step closer to unlocking the mysteries of the universe. The mission has ...

Since its deployment, the James Webb Space Telescope has been fine-tuned by experts to maintain its powerful optical ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is the largest and most powerful telescope ever launched to space. Its mirror is composed of 18 individual segments that have been aligned so accurately, that they ...

PRIMA is being developed as a NASA space telescope with an actively cooled 1.8-meter primary mirror made of aluminum. The two ...

NASA is set to launch a brand new space telescope that can see 100 times ... prisms, self-flexing mirrors and masks roughly the size of a baby grand piano. It is designed to block the light ...

In this photo, optical engineer Bente Eegholm inspects the surface of the primary mirror for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. This 7.9-foot (2.4-meter) mirror is a major component of the ...

To avoid accidental damage, power-folding mirrors automatically fold inwards when you’re parked. They automatically fold back out as soon as you open the door. To switch the auto-folding mirrors ...