Mirror Technology Push Aids Hunt for New Earths

Advances in lightweight mirror technology developed for NASA's Next-Generation Space Telescope may give engineers two different ways to build the proposed Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), increasing the odds that a space telescope can be built with enough capability to detect Earthlike planets...

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