A gigantic array of radio dishes proposed for the Utah desert could advance our understanding of physics and help us decode ...

Texas astronomers are part of the effort to construct the Giant Magellan Telescope – an effort that will bring a new level of ...

Staff at the European Southern Observatory have a system to clean the La Silla Observatory's delicate mirrors without breaking them.

The Giant Magellan Telescope, one of the largest telescopes ever built, is entering the final design phase and is expected to ...

Astronomers are excited about the first test images released today from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which show the ...

One of the big scopes is the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). It's taking shape as you read this in the clear-skied deserts of Chile, and it's projected to cost something like $2.54 billion as a whole.

The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), will be the biggest Earth-based optical telescope ever built, ushering in a new era of deep space exploration.

ASKAP J0107–2347, located around 1.5 billion light-years away, is also remarkable because it features two sets of radio lobes ...

The camera, now bolted to the end of a giant telescope at the Rubin Observatory, is expected to shoot photos of 20 billion ...

Giant Magellan Telescope receives $205 million in funding. The $205 million check is one of the largest in the Giant Magellan Telescope’s history, led by the Carnegie Institution for Science ...

It will be a while before the giant mirrors are shipped to Chile and assembled into a telescope. Under the rosiest scenario, the telescope won't achieve "first light," as it is known, until 2020.

The giant telescope will have 10 times the resolving power of the Hubble Space Telescope, revealing distant galaxies, the birth of stars, ...