This one-of-a-kind huge telescope will capture the sharpest and best images of space any telescope has ever done.

The world’s largest optical mirror was successfully installed on a support system prototype for the first time to validate ...

“For optical telescopes, you need a site that is high ... re going to go from a couple of something to a statistically large sample of something, and the science impact of what that can do ...

World’s largest optical mirror successfully installed on support system prototype for the first time to validate telescope’s extraordinary performance. Installation of one of GMT’s 8.4-m-diameter ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is the largest and most powerful telescope ever launched to space. Its mirror is composed of 18 individual segments that have been aligned so accurately, that they ...

JWST, a groundbreaking space observatory, enhances our understanding of the cosmos by studying distant galaxies, star ...

Chinese scientists are working to set up the world's largest refracting telescope in Tibet Autonomous ... science and technology Lhasa Wang Junjie said construction for the optical telescope, with a 1 ...

2024 — Astronomers have detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the frozen surface of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope. These discoveries ...

It is almost a decade late. According to the IIA, the National Large Solar Telescope will be a two-metre class optical and ...

Webb's high-resolution instruments uncover distant objects, enabling studies of early stars, galaxies, and habitable ...