Refractor to reflector, Schmidt-Cassegrain to Maksutov-Cassegrain - this is everything you need to know about the different types of telescopes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its ...

On October 7, police escorted a wooden crate two lanes wide through the streets of the South Side, arriving at the new High Bay Research Building on East 56th Street and South Maryland Avenue. Inside ...

The Very Large Telescope is situated atop Cerro Paranal, an 8,645-foot-high (2,635 m) mountain in Chile's Atacama Desert, about 75 miles (120 km) south of the port city of Antofagasta.

The plains house the aptly named Very Large Array (VLA)—a radio telescope made of 27 different antennas, each of which looks like a home satellite dish on steroids. When the antennas are pointed ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope won’t see “first light” until the early 2030s, but it—and its flagship “Large Earth Finder” and “Near-Infrared Spectrograph” in particular—should be ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet, astronomers said Wednesday, capturing rare direct images ...

A meta-telescope. Now, researchers at Pennsylvania State University and the NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center have come up with a much better way of making metalenses. Their process can be scaled up ...

Construction on ESO's Extremely Large Telescope continues. Here, in this May 1, 2025 photo taken from directly above, the the hexagonal support structure that will hold the ELT's 128-foot (39 ...

The so-called "Extremely Large Telescope" is being built on a mountaintop in the Andes at an elevation of about 3,000 meters. And it really is extremely large. The primary mirror will be 39 meters ...

High in the Chilean desert, the Extremely Large Telescope is taking shape. It promises sharper views of space than we've ever seen — but will Australian astronomers be able to use it?