Every area of interest, particularly if it’s the least bit technical, has its own specialized vocabulary. For example, when the Global Positioning System (GPS) came along and I decided to get a ...

In a new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2021.210040, Researchers led by Professor Daewook Kim from The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA consider advances in optical ...

A research team from the University of Tokyo/Kavli IPMU, Ehime University, and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has succeeded in conducting the first, full-scale scientific ...

On Wednesday evening, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, announced a major investment in not just one ...

Flagstaff, Ariz. – Lowell Observatory and the University of Arizona’s College of Optical Sciences (OSC) have finalized a $3 million, three-year contract to complete the Discovery Channel Telescope ...

How telescopes closed in on colliding neutron stars. Yellow contours show area of gamma ray burst detected by NASA’s Fermi telescope. White contours show the area of gravitational wave signal ...

Optical sparse aperture telescopes utilise an array of smaller, discrete subapertures to synthesise a large effective aperture, thereby achieving high-resolution imaging with reduced system mass and ...

Telescopes orbiting Earth can peer billions of light-years into space to observe incredible phenomena across the cosmos. 9 min read Telescopes orbiting Earth can peer billions of light-years into ...

Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) instruments, the U.S.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is trying to do for astronomy what cheap cloud computing did for software, backing a space ...