This year, the eight-nation European Southern Observatory (ESO) finished building its Very Large Telescope on Mount Paranal in Chile. This consists of four 8-metre mirrors that can be operated ...

The third focal point of SiTian’s southern hemisphere plan is South Africa, in collaboration with the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO). SAAO has begun (in 2020) a parallel project, aimed ...

The Flagstaff City Council gave formal approval to the Greater Observatory Mesa Natural Area plan during its meeting on Tuesday, June 3. All seven members voted in favor of adopting the plan ...

Astronomers have created a galactic masterpiece: an ultra-detailed image that reveals previously unseen features in the Sculptor Galaxy. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large ...

Building Rubin Observatory in Chile spanned three decades and as many continents. Important support came from right here in Wisconsin.

When construction of the $680 million observatory began in 2015, everything was still going according to plan. Four years later, SpaceX launched the first batch of Starlink internet satellites ...

A brand-new, cutting-edge telescope called the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is about to release its first images to the world, and the public can watch in real time. On June 23 the observatory will ...

The Rubin Observatory features an 8.4-metre primary mirror and a 3.2-gigapixel camera, one of the largest digital cameras ever constructed for ground-based astronomy.

Perched high in the Chilean Andes, the observatory will take hundreds of images of the southern hemisphere sky, every night for 10 years. In doing so, it will create the most complete time-lapse ...

The Arecibo Observatory’s suspended equipment platform collapsed just before 8 a.m. local time on December 1, falling more than 450 feet and crashing through the telescope’s massive radio dish ...

President Donald Trump vetoed a plan presented to the U.S. in recent days to kill Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter.