The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.

The non-profit astronomy news site Universe Today has explained about the Extremely Large Telescope, which is being constructed in Chile and will be able to grasp the composition of the atmosphere ...

The Extremely Large Telescope will revolutionize our view of the cosmos when it sees first light in Chile in 2028. In fact, ...

Over the past few years or so the most talked about kind of telescope was the one that is meant to operate in space. An ...

The world's largest telescope is almost as big as your house—and it’s unlocking the universe’s biggest mysteries.

Credit: J. Beltrán/ESO Work began on the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) more than a decade ago, and it's still about three years away from its ribbon-cutting ceremony. But if scientists are ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling stars. The image features a small region of the SMC near the center of NGC ...

One of these telescopes is called the Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor, or LUVOIR. A multi-wavelength space observatory by trade, it was first proposed back in 2016 alongside three other telescopes as ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

Scientists have discovered a star-smothering black hole energy jet tearing through a galaxy similar to the Milky Way.

Astronomers have made an exciting discovery—a massive spiral disk galaxy, much larger than expected, in the early universe.