The dream of finding life on an alien Earth-like world is hampered by a number of technical challenges. Not the least of ...

A new mission concept that would see a fleet of telescopes probing rocky planets in their stars' habitable zones should be able to tell us how common life is in the universe — even if the mission ...

Interferometers, devices that can modulate aspects of light, play the important role of modulating and switching light signals in fiber-optic communications networks and are frequently used for gas ...

VLT, an interferometer consisting of four 28-foot-wide (8.5 m) telescopes that work together as one, is one of the world's most powerful astronomical instruments. It captured the first ever image ...

What happens in an active galactic nucleus? Answering those questions is the goal of a proposed giant interferometer on the moon. It's called the Artemis-enabled Stellar Imager (AeSI) and would ...

Such monolithic interferometers will make it possible to build relatively ... Visiting Astronomer, Kitt Peak National Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatory. KPNO is operated by AURA, Inc ...

The new cascaded-mode interferometer is a reimagining of a Mach-Zehnder device integrated into a single-chip waveguide. Rather than the traditional split beam, the new interferometer has a unique ...