The Large UV/Optical/Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR) mission is one of four Decadal Survey Mission Concepts studied by NASA in preparation for the US National Academies’ Astro2020 Decadal Survey. This ...

A major new space telescope searching for ‘Earth 2.0’ – to succeed Hubble and the soon-to-be-launched James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) – is one step closer to reality. The Large Ultraviolet Optical ...

The concept design of the LUVOIR space telescope would place it at the L2 Lagrange point, where a 15.1-meter primary mirror would unfold and begin observing the Universe, bringing us untold scientific ...

The National Academies panel didn't go for the LUVOIR telescope as proposed, but endorsed its basic purpose and many of its elements. NASA should begin developing a space mission that can tell us ...