NASA scientists have proposed something extraordinary: building the largest telescope ever made on the far side of the Moon.

The Extremely Large Telescope, located in Paranal, Chile, is poised to be the largest optical telescope ever constructed.

In the middle of Chile's Atacama desert, there's lots of activity as construction on the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is still underway, with cranes helping to move pieces in place. The ELT is the ...

Last week AES Andes—a subsidiary of the AES Corporation, an American energy company—announced it had scrapped its plans for a ...

The Square Kilometer Array will have its first light next year, and the Extremely Large Telescope will be completed and operational by March 2029. Now, Schmidt Science has announced plans for four ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — One of the largest telescopes ever built is one step closer to completion. On June 12, the National Science Foundation announced that the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is entering the ...

The first images from a new telescope in Chile were released this week, featuring extraordinarily detailed scenes from deep space. And more are expected to follow the debut series from the ...

PHOENIX — The largest telescope in metro Phoenix was added to the International Dark Sky Discovery Center opening soon in Fountain Hills. The 27.5-inch PlaneWave CDK700 gives metro Phoenix its first ...

The venerable Hubble observatory is going strong despite its decades in space and the advent of next-generation successors ...

Coming from one of the world's largest astrophysical research institutes, I can tell you, the anticipation across the global space science community is electric.

Budget 2026 brings a major boost to science as FM Nirmala Sitharaman announces four key telescope projects to strengthen ...