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

NASA's Roman Space Telescope has received its Optical Telescope Assembly, paving the way for its mission to explore the ...

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 ...

In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...

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 ...

The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, designed to block starlight, will help scientists detect faint light from exoplanets.

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 ...

Roman Coronagraph integrated with NASA's Roman Space Telescope Telescope aims to find planets 100 million times fainter than ...

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 ...