The UA’s Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory is hard at work with its share of the construction on the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, which has been under development since 2000 and still faces ...

A billionaire-backed philanthropic organization is funding the development of a series of new observatories, including a ...

Lawrence Livermore Laboratory (LLNL) scientists designed and built a telescope that, as of March 14, was out of this world. The Stellar Occultation Hypertemporal Imaging Payload (SOHIP) is a telescope ...

Hyderabad startups TakeMe2Space and Eon Space Labs are launching India's first orbital AI lab on Isro's PSLV-C62 mission.

The LSST Corporation has awarded a $2.3 million contract to the University of Arizona Steward Observatory Mirror Lab to purchase the glass and begin engineering work for the 8.4-meter diameter main ...

Under the east grandstands of Arizona Stadium, University of Arizona scientists have been working for nearly 20 years to make huge mirrors for the world’s most powerful optical telescope. And though ...

After a meandering five-day, 2,500-mile cross-country wide-load trip, hoist and rigging crews had just three inches to spare as they delicately lowered a 25,000-pound crate containing the mirror blank ...