This image of a star was taken as part of the evaluation process as the James Webb Space Telescope's mirror segments were carefully aligned.

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is one giant step closer to unlocking the mysteries of the universe. The mission has now received its final major delivery: the Optical Telescope Assembly ...

SWAROVSKI OPTIK’s smallest lightest telescope is the ideal companion for packing and carrying on trips across rough terrain and remote areas.

Now, a large group of astronomers from all over the world is building the biggest optical telescope ever—the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) —in Chile. Once construction is completed in 2028, it could ...

In any case, within less than a decade, we are going to undergo a radical revolution in how we see the cosmos when one or more of these next-generation ground-based optical telescopes come online.

The huge telescope will collect at least 12 times more light than today's largest optical telescopes, allowing astronomers to probe a variety of high-priority cosmic questions.

Notable projects completed by Optical Surfaces include SPIRou and ESPaDOnS spectrographs at the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope (CFHT), the Narval stellar spectropolarimeter on the 2m Bernard Lyot ...

The optical device which the astronauts used for navigation while in the Apollo Lunar Module (LM) was an alignment optical telescope (AOT). The AOT was a periscope-type device that protruded through ...

"It is also the first time to detect an extremely energetic ultraviolet/optical flare with a space telescope," Prof. Fan added.

Scientists have discovered “myriad” galaxies that were previously undetected. The newly found systems were observed with the world’s most advanced optical telescope.

GOTO telescope will be the first to hunt for colliding black holes and neutron stars in a bid to find sources of gravitational waves.