The dream of finding life on an alien Earth-like world is hampered by a number of technical challenges. Not the least of ...

A new mission concept that would see a fleet of telescopes probing rocky planets in their stars' habitable zones should be ...

Answering those questions is the goal of a proposed giant interferometer on the moon ... Each element in the array will be a one-meter telescope deployed on a small rover. The array will expand ...

Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on amateur telescopes. Engineers and astronomers at the University of Utah have ...

The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer can be considered the first extremely large telescope, so it is very exciting to ...

The new cascaded-mode interferometer is a reimagining of a Mach-Zehnder device integrated into a single-chip waveguide. Rather than the traditional split beam, the new interferometer has a unique ...

As it turns out, the humble building blocks are good enough to build a interferometer if you’re so inclined to want one. [Kyra Cole] shows us how it’s done. The build in question is a ...