Making the far near The invention that set the stage for the telescope was the eyeglass, which appeared in the mid-13th century. The first spectacles, designed to correct farsightedness ...

For centuries, telescopes have relied on curved lenses and mirrors to observe the Universe. A team of researchers has recently developed a flat, lightweight lens capable of capturing precise color ...

Its distance is 1500 light years, meaning that the light we see from it left more than a thousand years before the invention of the telescope. The farther away an object in space lies, the longer ...

New optical technologies have revolutionized astronomy, from the invention of the telescope 400 years ago to more recent developments of adaptive optics and segmented mirrors. The next disruptive ...

Rutherfurd’s Moon images are beautiful, but they also marked an important leap forward for scientific imaging through their ...

Exactly 35 years ago this week, the Hubble Space Telescope was released from the Space Shuttle Discovery cargo hatch. Four new images prove it's still going strong.

In use for a year-and-a-half on the Harvard College Observatory's 60-foot radio telescope ... recognition and encouragement of scientific invention." Tonight's medal recipients will include ...