Most people would not link folding paper to putting the next generation of long-range telescopes into space, but Robert Lang isn’t most people. “Origami was a passionate hobby of mine until I got to ...

The successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, has passed an important test by deploying its huge mirror into the configuration it will use once launched into space.

Researchers have folded their way into a groundbreaking new family of origami patterns. Dubbed bloom patterns, because they resemble flowers as they unfold, the new class of origami shapes holds great ...

What do you do when your cutting-edge space telescope turns out to be too big for any rocket available? If you're NASA, and the instrument in question is the James Webb Space Telescope, you make it ...

One of the winning projects in NASA's 10th Space Apps hackathon is a Raspberry Pi-powered origami design inspired by the way the James Webb Space Telescope unfolds. The international event featured 28 ...

Background: Spacecraft How do you make a spacecraft? Whether you need a satellite to study what’s happening here on Earth, to make images of planets, asteroids, or comets in our solar system, to learn ...

The University of Minnesota’s Weisman Art Museum on the Mississippi River has been called a lot of things — my favorite was collapsed grain elevator. Actually the building designed by acclaimed ...