The world's largest telescope is almost as big as your house—and it’s unlocking the universe’s biggest mysteries.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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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 ...

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 ...