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

The site was chosen for its altitude, placing the telescope above as much atmospheric disturbance as possible. The air has a ...

Early simulations show that it would take only 10 hours for the forthcoming ELT to find signs of life near Proxima Centauri.

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky ...

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.

The Simons Observatory, a most advanced network of telescopes aimed at mapping the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) with unprecedented precision, has reached a major milestone: the Large Aperture ...

Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on ...

The car-sized Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Camera that was recently installed on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is ...

The Lowell Discovery Telescope stands as one of the largest telescopes in the country, swiftly adapting via unique instrument ...

The Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR) telescope has been imagined as a habitable planet hunter, but it could be so much ...