Sir Isaac Newton once wrote, in what must be one of the most oft-quoted lines in the history of science, "If I have seen further it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." Well, any of us ...

Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on amateur telescopes. Engineers and astronomers at the University of Utah have ...

As the lens gets bigger, it needs more space aboard a telescope and stronger support structures. As a result, the weight and size of such telescopes reach a level where the payload capacity ...

For example, you simply center the telephoto lens on the moon before activating the moon tracking function -- the telescope does the rest. This setting runs using a simple algorithm, so it begins ...