But did you know that underneath the east wing of the stadium lies one of the world’s preeminent manufacturers of cutting edge telescope mirrors? The Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab is currently ...

Searching for the ends of the universe, Robert Williams has led the Hubble Space Telescope project to find new parts of the universe never before seen by astronomers. Williams will talk about his work ...

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation recently awarded RIT $2.8 million to design, develop and build a zero-noise detector for the future Thirty Meter Telescope. Expected to be operational in the next ...

Join us at Space Telescope Science Institute in person on Thursday, March 30, to learn more about astronomy during our Youth for Astronomy and Engineering Program STEM Forum followed by an opportunity ...

This is an engineering model of one element of a four- telescope array called Celescope which was half of the payload for the second Orbiting Astronomical Satellite ... (Misc parts): 12.7 × 7.6 × ...

When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launches, it will mark the culmination of nearly 30 years of development on the most powerful observational instrument ever made. Numerous members of RIT’s ...

We understand parts of what happened in the early universe. But a huge blank still haunts astronomers. They call it the “dark ages” because, with no starlight to study, they’re left guessing where all ...

UC Santa Cruz grad student Tuguldur Sukhbold organized a project that, last year, delivered telescopes to 7 percent of the schools in Mongolia. (Photo by Carolyn Lagattuta) In Mongolia, horses ...