CubeSats with lasers can provide steady reference light for telescopes investigating distant planets
Researchers design CubeSats with lasers to provide steady reference light for telescopes investigating distant planets. There are more than 3,900 confirmed planets beyond our solar system. M... Read more
Seeing deep into space requires large telescopes. The larger the telescope, the more light it collects, and the sharper the image it provides. For example, NASA’s Kepler space observat... Read more
University of Colorado Boulder researchers will update NASA officials next week on a revolutionary space telescope concept selected by the agency for study last June that could provide image... Read more
A satellite using MOIRE optics could see approximately 40 percent of the earth’s surface at once The capability of orbital telescopes to see wide swaths of the earth at a time has made them... Read more
The James Webb Space Telescope will soon launch into space, but before it has even left, the technologies used in its construction are already finding uses back here on Earth. NASA is respon... Read more
