A fortunate dozen spent a night with the 4.3-meter Lowell Discovery Telescope, happy to be gazing at some great deep-sky ...

Galaxy clusters are among the largest structures in the universe, consisting of hundreds or thousands of galaxies.

The institute develops spatial light modulators with several million individually analogue-controllable mirrors on a single semiconductor chip. The components form optical key elements for multiple ...

A new international project promises to “revolutionise” our knowledge of the solar system through discovering millions of its ...

The degradation of seeing due to tube currents (also called thermals) is a widely recognized problem. But how do you know if ...

The universe rarely fails to amaze. One of its latest surprises—nicknamed the “Einstein zig-zag”—reveals a stunning ...