When the search for habitable exoplanets requires a 1,000 times more stable telescope than James Webb Space Telescope, even minimal material expansion down to a fraction of the width of an atom is the ...

A research team from Penn State has broken a 165-year-old law of thermal radiation with unprecedented strength, setting the stage for more efficient energy harvesting, heat transfer and infrared ...

Company Allvar working with NASA on NTE space telescope optics; other applications are possible. A new material that shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled could help enable the ultra ...