A NASA-funded plan to build a large radio telescope on the moon's far side is nearing final approval and could become a ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope offers sharper images, efficient light use, and the ability to find Earth-like planets.

The first telescope on Las Campanas, a one-meter-wide reflector called the Swope Telescope ... This was the future home of the Giant Magellan Telescope. I asked Dr. Mulchaey what it would do ...

The Arecibo Observatory's giant radio telescope in Puerto Rico suffered ... a set of cables holding the main platform over the reflector dish. Gradually, the zinc lost its grip and allowed several ...

And though the Giant Magellan Telescope is still years away from ... lab capable of making the GMT’s seven 8.4-meter-wide main reflector mirrors, but the UA scientists had to develop a process ...

In a major milestone for a decades-long project, the Giant Magellan Telescope project recently passed its final design review, locking in the design for the telescope enclosure and paving the way ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope will be built on a mountaintop in Chile’s Atacama Desert, a region that is home to many telescopes thanks to its clear skies, dry air and minimal ambient light ...

In June 2024, the Giant Magellan Telescope's enclosure passed its final design review and is now ready for construction in Chile. The 65-meter-tall enclosure will be one of the largest mechanized ...

The proposed telescope will be built entirely by robots and consist of a giant wire mesh suspended ... a 1,150-foot-wide (350 meter) meshed reflector, which is larger than Arecibo's collapsed ...