In contrast to other telescopes like Hubble and Kepler, small, quick, and cheap are the buzzwords for this project. The telescope is supposed to have an 18-inch mirror -- for reference, Hubble's ...

Project Blue, an ambitious initiative to directly image planets around the double suns of Alpha Centauri, has started crowdfunding for its space telescope. The initiative would launch a small space ...

“By optimizing our telescope to focus on just Alpha Centauri, the final cost of our mission will be under $50 million, with an initial target of $25 million. Sounds like a lot, but it’s modest ...

“We made engineering trade-offs, so we were able to get two bits for every received photon.” To send this 73db signal from Alpha Centauri would likely require a three and a half meter telescope. “The ...