A telescope arms race is taking shape around the world. Astronomers are drawing up plans for the biggest, most powerful instruments ever ...

That size is actually scaled down from the first design for the EELT, which called for a monumental 100-meter lens carrying the brash moniker of Overwhelmingly Large Telescope.

(Alas, the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope never made it past the concept phase.) Ausonia (left) and Urania (right), the smallest of the recently imaged asteroids.

The original construction plan proposed a telescope with a 100-meter diameter mirror, initially named the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope.

Around the same time, the Europeans scaled down their dreams from overwhelmingly large to merely extremely large and planned the construction of the 39-meter E-ELT in Chile.

In fact, ELT started out as an idea called OWL—the OverWhelmingly Large Telescope —that would have been a Brobdingnagian 100 meters wide; after much review, a panel of astronomers decided a ...

Half a ton of stone was blasted off of the Cerro Armazones Mountain on Thursday to make room for the European Extremely Large Telescope.

At least three giant-telescope projects are now under way, and the biggest of them, the European Extremely Large Telescope, or E-ELT, has just taken several significant steps toward what observers ...

The original construction plan proposed a telescope with a 100-meter diameter mirror, initially named the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope. However, the team realised that the design would be too ...