Plasma mirrors capable of withstanding the intensity of powerful lasers are being designed through an emerging machine ...

With the James Webb Space Telescope at its final destination in orbit around the sun, now the telescope has to go through a series of alignment processes to get it ready for collecting science data.

UA optical scientists are set to begin almost two years of high-precision polishing and grinding work on a 4.3-meter mirror that will form the core of a $40 million Discovery Channel telescope near ...

With the exciting process of deployment complete, the James Webb Space Telescope team is now embarking on their next challenge: Aligning the telescope’s mirror segments. This slow, months-long process ...