The Giant Magellan Telescope begins the four-year process to fabricate and polish its seventh and final primary mirror, the last required to complete the telescope’s 368 square meter light collecting ...

GREENBELT, Md. – Scientists working at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., have concocted an innovative recipe for giant telescope mirrors on the Moon. To make a mirror that dwarfs ...

It takes two unique types of mirrors working together to see farther back in time and space than ever before, and engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center have just received one of each type.

When it comes to telescopes and how powerful they are for looking deep into the cosmos, there are lots of factors to consider. Such as the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum the telescope operate ...

NASA's FLUTE project, focusing on liquid-mirror telescope technology, has received extended funding to investigate a 50-meter space telescope concept, building upon prior successful experiments in ...

NASA opened a golden eye on the cosmos Saturday. The James Webb Space Telescope, the largest and most complex of its kind, successfully completed its final deployment stage by opening its 21-foot gold ...

The still-young James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has proven in the few years it has been up there, almost a million miles away from home, that a large telescope positioned just right is the perfect ...