Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...
"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...
NASA wants to view the Big Bang with this behemoth, so it's saying goodbye to the James Webb Telescope. The new one redefines ...
NASA's Roman Space Telescope is preparing for launch in 2027, with a mission to study distant galaxies and explore dark energy.
[Bill Hammack] elaborates on one such piece of engineering: The Alignment Optical Telescope. The telescope was used to find the position of the Lunar Module in space so that its guidance computer ...
Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the ...
The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world's largest visible- and infrared-light telescope — is currently under development on the Cerro Armazones mountain ...
A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...
The journey of astronomical telescopes began in the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei crafted his first refracting ...
North Liberty’s best kept secret looks like a giant satellite dish nestled in a wooded area between North Liberty and Coralville Lake. But it’s not a satellite. It’s a radio telescope that makes up ...
Observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope and the VLT have revealed jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause ...