Giant non-diffraction limited space telescopes could make the 21st century when we see the entire observable universe in substantial detail ...

Giant Telescopes of Tomorrow In the 20th century, telescopes advanced greatly in size, with apertures of optical scopes expanding from just five feet to over 30, and radio dishes growing from 30 ...

That may be set to change as astronomers turn to quantum physicists for help to start connecting optical telescopes that are tens, even hundreds, of kilometers away from one another.

Astronomers have constructed telescopes of every kind - massive observatories designed to pick up faint traces of light across space.

They're arriving now and should soon start collecting starlight—and making it the highest-resolution optical telescope in the world.

The past 25 years have, if anything, been the era of the mega-telescope, an era that began in the 1990s. Until then, the largest optical telescope in the Western Hemisphere had been the 200-inch ...

The process of deciphering data from non-optical telescopes is often called false colorization, but the word “false” does it a disservice.

In any case, within less than a decade, we are going to undergo a radical revolution in how we see the cosmos when one or more of these next-generation ground-based optical telescopes come online.

The telescope, part of the next generation of telescopes now under construction or development, will be one of the largest optical telescopes ever built when completed.

GOTO telescope will be the first to hunt for colliding black holes and neutron stars in a bid to find sources of gravitational waves.

Engineering researchers are designing nano-optical cables small enough to replace the copper wiring on computer chips. The advance could result in radical increases in computing speeds and reduced ...