NASA scientists have proposed something extraordinary: building the largest telescope ever made on the far side of the Moon.
In Chile’s Atacama Desert, scientists are building the Extremely Large Telescope, the biggest optical telescope ever ...
UT-Austin just took a big step in its process of building one of the largest telescopes in the world as the Giant Magellan Telescope is moving into its final design phase to get federal funding ...
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.
A Ball Aerospace engineer prepares the glass illumination ground support optics (background) beryllium flight spare Secondary Mirror Assembly (foreground) for cryogenic optical hexapod motion testing ...
The Giant Magellan Telescope is under construction in a Chilean desert, one of the best places on Earth to view space Credit: photo via GiantMagellan.Org UT-Austin just took a big step in its process ...