A new study shows the European Extremely Large Telescope will be able to directly image and study the atmospheres of some potentially habitable exoplanets. When you purchase through links on our site, ...
Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications offer you ...
The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) celebrates 20 years of observing the sky. SALT is the largest optical telescope ...
Customers send their telescopes to Starfront Observatories, where amateur stargazers can view the night sky unencumbered by ...
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The Milky Way arcs over the Very Large Telescope | Space photo of the day for Nov. 5, 2025
High atop the arid plateaus of Chile's Atacama Desert, one of humanity's most powerful astronomical instruments peers into ...
The largest ground-based optical telescopes in use today use mirrors that are 10 m (33 ft) across. But the prospects for future Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs) are looking up. According to recent ...
The National Science Foundation has awarded $3.7 million to the University of Chicago for the first year of a grant that may provide up to $21.4 million for the final designs for a next-generation set ...
It is the colours of a sunset that inspire Joseph Anderson, an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in the high Atacama desert, in northern Chile. “They start off very blue and ...
Earth's atmosphere is an impediment to astronomical observations. Not only is cloudy weather a problem, but temperature ...
Members of the research team Grace Chesmore (left) and Katie Harrington (right) open the front of the tester used to analyze the Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope receiver optics. CREDIT ...
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