Nestled at an altitude of nearly 10,000 feet, atop a mountain in Chile’s Atacama Desert called Cerro Armazones, scientists and engineers are constructing the largest visible light and infrared ...
A long-delayed project to build the largest telescope in the Northern Hemisphere atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii has been given new ...
A brand-new instrument has captured a cluster of sunspots - dark surface spots caused by strong magnetic fields - on our glorious Sun in an unprecedented amount of detail. This image was taken during ...
HONOLULU Hawaii was chosen Tuesday as the site for the worlds biggest telescope, a device so powerful that it will allow scientists to see some 13 billion light-years away and get a glimpse into the ...
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 Southern African Large Telescope (Salt) near Sutherland is celebrating 20 years of observing the night sky.
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Mike Brown is convinced that beyond Neptune, at the far reaches of our solar system, there's an unseen giant planet. "This is the 5th largest planet in our solar system, lurking out there, waiting to ...