Modern-age telescopes have offered us a tantalizing view of what lies in the vast expanse of space, while also giving us glimpses of the universe’s past. However, making telescopes that can peek deep ...

Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on amateur telescopes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

For centuries, lenses have worked the same way: curved glass or plastic bending light to bring images into focus. But traditional lenses have a major drawback—the more powerful they need to be, the ...

For centuries, telescopes have relied on curved lenses and mirrors to capture images of the cosmos. While effective, these traditional optical elements are heavy and bulky. Large observatories and ...

For hundreds of years, the principle behind the telescope has been as simple as it gets: build a lens or mirror to collect a large amount of light, focus that light onto a detector (like an eye, a ...

Nautilus Space Observatory unit telescopes are launched in a compact configuration and deployed in orbit. An inflatable structure deploys the 8.5m-diameter diffractive lenses to the front of the ...