The world's largest telescope by far is being built in the Chilean desert. New aerial photos show how the instrument ...

Ground-based telescopes work best when the atmosphere between them and the Universe is kept to a minimum, making the ELT’s ...

This magnificent image from NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes shows the Orion Nebula in an explosion of infrared. These two Hubble images reveal a dark, edge-on protoplanetary disk of dust ...

Space can be a wondrous place, and we've got the pictures to prove it ... the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) under construction. The skeleton of one ...

Northwestern University is officially a founding partner of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), an enormous ground-based ...

Many people have heard of the Keck Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope, but few realize just how many powerful ...

As the 9th American institution to invest, Northwestern University expands the Giant Magellan Telescope international consortium to 15 members from the United States, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Israel, ...

Astronomers from the National Institute of Science Education and Research or NISER in Odisha have made the discovery using the advanced radio telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert. Their ...

It is as humbling as it is motivating to think about how much we still have to learn about the universe. My collaborators and ...

Preparations are underway to send the next round of astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). SpaceX's Crew-8 ...