In the middle of Chile's Atacama desert, there's lots of activity as construction on the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is still underway, with cranes helping to move pieces in place. The ELT is the ...

Last week AES Andes—a subsidiary of the AES Corporation, an American energy company—announced it had scrapped its plans for a ...

The first images from a new telescope in Chile were released this week, featuring extraordinarily detailed scenes from deep space. And more are expected to follow the debut series from the ...

PHOENIX — The largest telescope in metro Phoenix was added to the International Dark Sky Discovery Center opening soon in Fountain Hills. The 27.5-inch PlaneWave CDK700 gives metro Phoenix its first ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — One of the largest telescopes ever built is one step closer to completion. On June 12, the National Science Foundation announced that the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is entering the ...

The Square Kilometer Array will have its first light next year, and the Extremely Large Telescope will be completed and operational by March 2029. Now, Schmidt Science has announced plans for four ...

UT-Austin just took a big step in its process of building one of the largest telescopes in the world as the Giant Magellan Telescope is moving into its final design phase to get federal funding ...

The stars just got a little closer for Valley skywatchers. The International Dark Sky Discovery Center in Fountain Hills installed metro Phoenix’s largest telescope. In late September, the center’s ...

The venerable Hubble observatory is going strong despite its decades in space and the advent of next-generation successors ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that time was “running out” in the race to build the next great optical telescope ...