The group building what could become the world's most powerful optical telescope, the Giant Magellan, has a new leader. The ...

A new study looked at how the telescope would be ending its journey, and the moment might be disastrous for Earth, with a ...

The University of Texas at Austin's Daniel T. Jaffe has been appointed as the new president of the Giant Magellan Telescope ...

On Wednesday evening, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, announced a major investment in not just one ...

"Awards like these are a critical component of our incubator program for future missions, which combines government ...

T he Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has been pivotal to progress in the last three decades of astronomy and cosmology.

NASA selects two Colorado companies to develop technology used on its next space telescope, which will search for life on other planets ...

The Schmidts' philanthropic research organization will build a 3-meter space telescope and fund three ground-based facilities.

Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) instruments, the U.S.

Upon arrival at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, the Optical Telescope Assembly for the agency's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was lifted out of the shipping fixture and placed with other ...

Scientists have unveiled a new way to capture ultra-sharp optical images without lenses or painstaking alignment. The ...

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