If there were any extra left to give, more than two kilometres above sea level, ... A planned successor, the “Overwhelmingly Large Telescope”, would have sported a 100-metre mirror.

If there is life on Proxima Centauri b, it could take the Extremely Large Telescope as little as 10 hours to detect its influence on the planet’s atmosphere. Observations will take longer for ...

A new observatory in Chile has produced a stunningly detailed image of a nebula resembling cotton candy, using the largest ...

The world's largest digital camera and most powerful telescope released the first images it has captured in the best images ...

Work on the project began in 2003, with an estimated completion date of sometime in the mid 2030s. Run as a non-profit operation, hundreds of millions of dollars of the Giant Magellan Telescope ...

Construction on ESO's Extremely Large Telescope continues. Here, in this May 1, 2025 photo taken from directly above, the the hexagonal support structure that will hold the ELT's 128-foot (39 ...

Researchers have developed a new way to produce and shape large, high-quality mirrors that are much thinner than the primary mirrors previously used for telescopes deployed in space. The resulting ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet, astronomers said Wednesday, capturing rare direct images ...

This makes large-volume production almost impossible and means that metalenses are currently expensive and too small for the large-aperture applications such as telescopes. A meta-telescope Now, ...

Big telescopes on big launchers. In 2021, ... The extra power could allow the spacecraft to use cheaper electronics with more redundancy, Elvis said.