The search for habitable planets has taken a leap forward with new space telescopes probing exoplanet atmospheres for life.

Scientists searching for dark matter have made groundbreaking progress using new infrared spectrographic technology and the ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope today announced the successful installation of one of its completed 8.4-meter-diameter primary ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) will weight 2.4 million-pounds and may revolutionize our understanding of the universe. It uses seven giant mirrors to collect and focus the light to a point and ...

Scientists are closer than ever to uncovering universe dark matter's secrets. Advanced telescopes and cutting-edge tech push ...

With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered "middle-aged," and the pictures of what it might have looked like in its infancy are lost to time. Taking advantage of a ...

In June 2024, the Giant Magellan Telescope's enclosure passed its final design review and is now ready for construction in Chile. The 65-meter-tall enclosure will be one of the largest mechanized ...

Astronomers using a cutting-edge adaptive optics instrument, MagAO-X, have captured unprecedented images of young planets ...

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Giant Magellan Telescope The GMT is one of several large ground-based optical telescopes in development. Situated high and dry in Chile, it will have seven primary mirror segments, each over 26 ...

Its primary objective was to search for dark matter using the WINERED high-dispersion spectrograph mounted on one of the Magellan telescopes in Chile. The Magellan telescopes are two optical ...

Another finding was how dramatically the planets varied in brightness over just three years. The team discovered that PDS 70 b dropped to about one-fifth of its original brightness, whereas PDS 70 c ...