A long-delayed project to build the largest telescope in the Northern Hemisphere atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii has been given new ...

They may have to compete with entrepreneurs flocking to the moon for business and mining. Gazing at the moon, you may see a face or a round of cheese, but some astronomers see the ideal spot for their ...

When it comes to building enormous, complex space telescopes, agencies like NASA have to plan far in advance. Even though the James Webb Space Telescope only launched recently, astronomers are already ...

When you hear about big science projects like a huge new telescope or a miles-long particle accelerator, it’s usually in the context of the big science discoveries they’ve made. But before anyone can ...

On Jan. 1, 1925, astronomer Edwin Hubble completely changed the way we view the universe and our place in it. The discovery came from peering through what was then the world’s largest telescope, ...

The final integration of the telescope's major observatory components took place on Nov. 25 inside NASA's Goddard Space ...

At the dawn of the 17th Century, Galileo Galilei began the first major search of the night sky (as well as the Sun!) using a new Dutch invention — the telescope. In the era when William Shakespeare ...

FORT DAVIS, TEXAS — A group of amateur astronomers has used the 2.1-meter (82-inch) Otto Struve Telescope at McDonald Observatory to make the first “through-the- Eyepiece” sighting of so-called the ...