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

The European Space Agency's (ESA) newest planetary defender has opened its "eye" to the cosmos for the first time. The Flyeye ...

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 2024, the National Science Foundation stated there was only enough money for one giant US telescope. Now the thirty-meter ...

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

New research on the orbits of these mysterious asteroids near Venus stress the need for better space rock surveillance.

The lightweight processing of Schott microcrystalline glass faces many challenges. It has high hardness and brittleness, and ...

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

Astronomers have captured videos of the sun without the typical blur caused by turbulence in Earth's atmosphere ...

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

Scientists reveal the clearest images of the Sun’s corona using a new adaptive optics system, opening new paths for solar ...