A new backyard telescope accumulates and intensifies light, bringing the shapes and colors of cosmic objects into clearer view for amateur astronomers, the instrument's makers say. The Enhanced Vision ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the long-lived Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have been providing amazing images to earthbound viewers for some time now. Along with other instruments, these ...

Whether you're a professional astronomer or a novice, everyone knows the biggest barrier to gazing into deep space. High-quality telescopes are very expensive. Sure, plenty of cheap options are ...

system at the W. M. Keck Observatory is exceeding performance expectations and is poised to revolutionize many fields of astronomy. The new guide star system, the only one of its kind on a very large ...

Physics Today has a speculative article that proposes that laser light be used to shape and polish an asteroid to high optical standards. This could create an Asteroid Belt Astronomical Telescope ...

Just last week, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced an ambitious plan to de-ice the Euclid space telescope from millions of miles away. The agency expected this to be a long-term operation with ...

Designed and built by ESO - the Very Large Telescope (VLT) and Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) are some of the world's most advanced optical telescopes that form the flagship facility for European ...