(if going by patent filings) of the telescope to finally see Neptune's auroras, and it's thanks to NASA's James Webb Space ...

Scientists have developed an impossibly thin telescope lens that addresses a key astronomical challenge in a new study funded ...

Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on ...

For the first time, a flat telescope lens has been produced that represents colors accurately, offering a way to make less bulky lenses that could be sent into space cheaply. The first telescopes ...

As the clocks go forward this weekend, the FT’s senior graphics artist walks a fine (meridian) line through the birthplace of ...

Chinese scientists are working to set up the world's largest refracting telescope in Tibet Autonomous Region for observing stars and planets. Deputy Director of the regional department of science and ...

The Sky-Watcher EQM-35 works with refractor telescopes with apertures up to 100mm and Maksutov telescopes (a form of catadioptric telescope) with apertures up to 127mm. Despite these strengths and ...

It was soon realized that what was to become known as chromatic aberration was a limiting factor in refracting telescopes, and that this could be overcome by making lenses with longer focal length ...

Traditional refracting lenses use their curvature to bend light. The world-changing insight that inspired the telescope was that two lenses in succession could be used to create enlarged images of ...

March's full moon, known as the Worm Moon, will bring a stunning total lunar eclipse, turning the Moon a deep reddish hue in ...

The show that takes you deep into the cosmos or just to the telescope in your backyard ... our planet does an amazing job of reflecting and refracting and scattering and changing that.