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 ...

MeerKAT radio telescope discovers 49 hidden galaxies in less than three hours, revealing how much of the nearby universe ...

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

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

Radio telescopes are instruments that capture faint radio signals from space and convert them into images of celestial bodies ...

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

Optical aberration theory remains a fundamental component in the design and operation of space telescopes. With increasingly ambitious astronomical missions and the demand for high-resolution imaging, ...