Researchers conducted the first-ever near-infrared analysis of an extragalactic recurrent nova and found it is one of the ...

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

Learn about the Giant Magellan Telescope–one of three next-generation, ground-based telescopes that are currently under ...

Astronomers have examined infant planets orbiting a star 370 light-years away, seeing the exomoon forming disks of gas and ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Credit: Emmeline Close and Laird Close Paired with the 6.5-meter Magellan Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, the instrument works as an "adaptive optics system," meaning it corrects ...

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A team led by a member of Tokyo Metropolitan University has made advances in the search for dark matter, observing galaxies using new spectrographic technology and the Magellan Clay Telescope.

Paired with the 6.5-meter Magellan Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, the instrument works as an "adaptive optics system," meaning it corrects for turbulence in the atmosphere that ...

instrument paired with the 6.5-meter Magellan Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. The team also observed, for the first time, changes in the brightness of the protoplanets, which ...