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 ...

"We're going to do it in three years, and we're going to do it for a ridiculously low price," Pete Klupar, executive director ...

On Monday, June 23, scientists revealed the first images captured by the world's most powerful telescope and largest digital camera - part of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) - showing ...

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 ...

Telescopes have come a long way since the first one was invented in 1608. So what's the most powerful telescope operating today, and how far can it see? When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

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 ...

Long before space travel, we looked up and wondered. Telescopes became our first spacecraft — tools that let us explore the universe without leaving the ground. Today, observatories span the globe, ...