The primary mirror array will be 128 feet (39 meters) across, allowing it to gather more light and greater detail than any ...

Nestled at an altitude of nearly 10,000 feet, atop a mountain in Chile’s Atacama Desert called Cerro Armazones, scientists and engineers are constructing the largest visible light and infrared ...

The Canadian-built Atacama Cosmology Telescope in the high Chilean desert mountains, which has just given up its final batch ...

Researchers suggest that certain gases detected in the atmospheres of exoplanets could be key indicators in the search for ...

When it’s finished, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the most powerful optical telescope ever, will search for distant Earth-like planets and expand our understanding of the cosmos.

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...

The former will look for signs of life in Earth-like exoplanets ... and ten times as much as the largest telescopes around today. On top of it all, it will be capable of correcting for atmospheric ...

Using Webb's instruments, an international team of scientists determined that this galaxy's redshift is 13.0, meaning it was ...