"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...

HWO will be the first space telescope built to find potentially habitable planets and analyze their atmospheres for signs of ...

Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution and other unwanted side effects from the proposed construction of a renewa ...

Scientists used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine select star-forming areas in the Extreme Outer Galaxy in near- ...

A proposed massive hydrogen-fuel production project in Chile has astronomers galvanized in concern and opposition. One ...

World’s largest telescope dome completed in Chile ELT dome will house massive telescope for groundbreaking research Telescope aims to revolutionize space exploration by 2028 ...

North Liberty’s best kept secret looks like a giant satellite dish nestled in a wooded area between North Liberty and ...

The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT ... M1 will be the largest mirror ever built for an optical telescope. Breaking space news, the latest updates on ...

Very Large Telescope (VLT). VLT, which cost some $350 million to build in the 1990s ($840 million in today's dollars), is one of the world's most sensitive sky-watching instruments, capable of ...

The Large Binocular Telescope (LBT), located on Mount Graham in Arizona, features two 8.4-meter mirrors mounted side by side. When combined through interferometry, they function as a single, extremely ...

"The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer can be considered the first extremely large telescope, so it's very exciting to prove this is possible," said Jacob Isbell, a postdoctoral research ...