I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

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NASA completes assembly of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The observatory will enter final testing before launch, providing infrared surveys and cosmic data for astronomy research.

“They can move in steps that are a fraction of a wavelength of light, or about 1/10,000th the diameter of a human hair,” explained Lee Feinberg, optical telescope element manager of the NASA James ...

Upon arrival at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, the Optical Telescope Assembly for the agency's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was lifted out of the shipping fixture and placed with other ...

We now have direct images of two supermassive black holes: M87* and Sag A*. The fact that we can capture such images is ...

Optical aberration theory remains a fundamental component in the design and operation of space telescopes. With increasingly ambitious astronomical missions and the demand for high-resolution imaging, ...

Astronomers have discovered the first radio signals from a unique category of dying stars, called Type Ibn supernovae, and these signals offer new insights into how massive stars meet their demise.