Plus, with Saturn making its return to the night sky next week after spending the last few months as a 'morning star', the ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to begin operations in 2027, will revolutionize our understanding of dark matter by using gravitational lenses to study this mysterious force. By ...

In the 17th century, a Dutch glassmaker applied for a telescope patent, but his claim was denied. Who really created the telescope and why was it produced?

For the first time, a flat telescope lens has been produced that represents colors accurately, offering a way to make less bulky lenses that could be sent into space cheaply. The first telescopes ...

Webb Space Telescope captures a star in the making and a galaxy far, far away NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope captured the same shot in 2006, with scientists then dubbing the stellar jet ...

Dwarf II is a compact and portable smart telescope at an excellent price point. It’s also super flexible, featuring both wide-angle and telephoto lenses.

The telescope began as a relatively simple device, born out of optical experimentation. It combined a series of lenses and mirrors to collect and magnify light, allowing the user to see far away ...

Euclid Telescope Spots Einstein Ring Wrapped Around a Galaxy The structure is nearly 600 million light-years from Earth and is an early display of the nascent dark matter telescope's power.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured an awe-inspiring sight in the cosmos. In an observation of the galaxy cluster eMACS J1353.7+4329, located about eight billion light-years from Earth in ...

The lenses have other benefits, too. First, they are much easier and quicker to fabricate than mirrors and can be made en masse. Second, lens-based telescopes work well even when not aligned perfectly ...