Can space telescopes be improved for future astronomy studies? This is what a researcher from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics hopes to find out as he developed a method of ...

Scientists of Samara State Technical University (Samara Polytech) have developed and patented a way to reduce distortion and increase the resolution of space telescopes. This invention will help to ...

Researchers have developed a new way to produce and shape large, high-quality mirrors that are much thinner than the primary mirrors previously used for telescopes deployed in space. The resulting ...

Mike Every knows about grinding glass—and he doesn’t like it. The second-year physics major from Saugerties, N.Y., is an amateur telescope maker with an idea for producing lightweight mirrors out of ...

An Australian researcher has invented plastic auto side mirrors and they're being exported to the U.S. Colin Hall, a senior research fellow at the Future Industries Institute at the University of ...