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

If another gravity theory is correct, "then the broader implications are enormous," astrophysicist Stacy McGaugh told ...

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 ...

and become the largest optical telescope in the world. The ELT's 39-meter mirror will be capable of collecting tens of millions of times as much light as the human eye. Friday, September 20 ...

Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...

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 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 6956. The galaxy is located "214 million light-years ...

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