Perhaps its most humanitarian contribution to society was the Kepler telescope that NASA uses to ... when it was contracted by the Navy to design submarine detection systems.

"We have by and large been ignoring triples in models and simulations — we're just starting to understand how these types of ...

"The James Webb Space Telescope has been truly revolutionary- it is now hard to imagine what life was like without it!" ...

NASA's Roman Space Telescope, slated for a 2027 launch, will provide insights into dark energy and exoplanets. It will undergo rigorous testing to ensure durability in space conditions.

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The FYST has an off-axis Crossed-Dragone design, comprising a parabolic primary mirror and a large concave secondary mirror, both roughly 6 meters in diameter. This creates a high-throughput, wide ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and can be seen with the naked eye on a clear autumn night as “a faint ...

Modern satellites also continue to orbit Earth post-retirement: After the Kepler Space Telescope ran out of fuel in 2018, NASA ended the mission and left the spacecraft in orbit, while the ...

Japanese collectors spent billions on European paintings during the bubble economy of the 1980s. Officials today hope to inspire a new generation of art lovers. By Zachary Small The National ...

To accomplish its work, Rubin relies on an innovative three-mirror design unlike that of any other telescope. Its primary mirror is actually made up of two separate surfaces with different curvatures.

Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016. Dr. Rubin’s work persuaded astronomers of the existence of dark ...

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