The birthplace of the bicycle, steam engine and jet engine, the UK has a long history of innovation. Here’s how key ...

Among his many achievements, English physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton revolutionized the way we look at the cosmos. In 1668, he built the world’s first reflecting telescope, which had ...

the invention of the reflecting telescope described by James Gregory and built in a different form by Isaac Newton (Fig. 1b), and the invention of the achromatic doublet by John Dolland and others ...

Isaac Newton was the first to really make it work. Newton's reflecting telescope consisted of a single curved main mirror, coupled with a smaller flat mirror positioned at the focal point and ...

Rainbow over Herstmonceux in 1981. The observatory dome in the picture used to house Isaac Newton telescope, which is now situated at La Palma in the Canary Islands. | Credit: Barry Shimmon ...

Isaac Newton changed ... reconsider the design of the telescope, which up until this point was a large, cumbersome instrument. By using mirrors instead of lenses, Newton was able to create a ...

In 1967, the Royal Greenwich Observatory built a new tool — the Isaac Newton Telescope. The Isaac Newton Telescope was housed in its own new huge telescope dome (white this time), offset from ...

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 ...

Young stars enveloped in a transformative cocoon of gas shine brightly in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The newborn stars belong to a cluster known as NGC 460, which is located in a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar system for the first time, scientists announced Monday. The gas giants are ...