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

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

UT-Austin just took a big step in its process of building one of the largest telescopes in the world as the Giant Magellan ...

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 ...

The plains house the aptly named Very Large Array (VLA)—a radio telescope made of 27 different antennas, each of which looks like a home satellite dish on steroids. When the antennas are pointed ...

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

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 ...

Three giant telescopes, each much larger than any currently in operation, are under development, although there are big questions over whether all three will be completed. The largest and most ...