The goal of the Thirty Metre Telescope project is to peer deeper into the cosmos than ever before, studying black holes, ...

A long-delayed project to build the largest telescope in the Northern Hemisphere atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii has been given new ...

India and Japan are jointly building the world's largest and most powerful optical telescope. Its 30-meter wide mirror has ...

This makes it appear correspondingly smaller through a telescope—infinitesimally smaller, in fact, appearing as only a point ...

A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces ...

In this woodturning project, I recreate the James Webb Space Telescope’s mirror array on an ebonised oak bowl. Each hexagon ...

A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning picture of a grand and graceful cosmic butterfly. The National Science Foundation’s NoirLab released the picture. Snapped by the Gemini South telescope, ...

The goal of the Thirty Metre Telescope project is to peer deeper into the cosmos than ever before, studying black holes, ...

"Asteroseismology with Roman is possible because we don't need to ask the telescope to do anything it wasn't already planning to do." ...

India and Japan are partnering to construct the Thirty Metre Telescope (TMT), an advanced astronomical instrument aimed at exploring life beyond Earth.

There's always a touch of melancholy when a chapter that has absorbed years of work comes to an end. In the case of the ...

Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away.