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

And it really is extremely large. The primary mirror will be 39 meters (128 feet) in diameter. Like, that's gigantic for an optical telescope. It is nearly four times larger than the largest ...

In 1987, an enormous blue arc, thought to be hundreds of trillions of miles long, was first considered one of the largest ...

The construction of the world’s largest visible- and infrared-light telescope is making significant strides in the remote ...

The sun's corona—the outermost layer of its atmosphere, visible only during a total solar eclipse—has long intrigued ...

Moved to Boston, where he took a job appraising buildings for an insurance company. Became so fascinated with the buildings’ designs that he decided he would become an architect. Enrolled at the ...

Whether you're captivated by the intricate patterns of a distant bird or the luminous glow of a nebula, selecting the right ...

Scientists develop new optical system that removes blur over fine-structure in the Sun's corona, revealing clearest images to ...

The Einstein Telescope (ET), a next-generation gravitational-wave detector ... constantly monitoring the lengths of long detector "arms" using sensitive lasers and mirrors kept under ultra-high vacuum ...

Where did the other $9,000 “anti-dollars” go? That is exactly the problem facing us today in trying to understand the ...